Wt/sco/tree

Scots

A tree structur

Noon

tree (plural trees)

1. A lairge plant, nae exactly defined, but teepically ower fower meters in hicht, wi a single trunk which growes in girst with age and brainches (that an aa grow in circumference wi age).

Verb

tae Wt/sco/tree (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past -, past participle -)

1. Tae support wi timmer or props.

Inglis

Etymology

Frae Middle Inglis tree, tre, treo, treou, trew, trow, frae Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wid, timmer, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), frae Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wid”), frae pre-Germanic *dréu̯om, thematic e-grade derivative o Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

Cognates

Frae the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wid, rod, stick”), North Frisian tre, trä (“tree”), Middle Dutch tree > Dutch teer (“tree”), Dens træ (“tree”), Swadish trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”), Norse tre (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree, wid, piece o wid”), Albanie dru (“tree, wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo), Tocharian A or. Relatit tae tar, true.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹiː/, [tɹiː], [t͡ʃɹiː]
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹi/, [tɹi], [t͡ʃɹi]

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noon

tree (plural Wt/sco/trees or (obsolete) treen)

1. tree

Hypernyms

• plant
• (in graph theory): graph

Hyponyms

• oak, fir, pine
• see an aa: Wikisaurus:tree

Synonyms

• sapling, seedling

See an aa

• Category:Wt/sco/Trees
• arboreal

Verb

tree (third-person singular semple praisent Wt/sco/trees, praisent pairteeciple Wt/sco/treeing, simple past and past participle Wt/sco/treed)

1. (transitive) Tae chase (an ainimal or person) up a tree.

Stateestics

• Maist common Inglis wirds afore 1923: notice · week · stone · #780: tree · cost · value · cast

Anagrams

• reet, rete

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• trede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [treː]

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Noun

tree m (plural treeën or Wt/sco/trees, diminutive treetje n)

1. stap (o a stair)

Anagrams

• eert, eter, reet, teer, tere

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North Frisian

Etymology

Frae Old Frisian thrē.

Numeral

tree

1. (Heligoland) three