English word tree comes from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, and later Proto-Germanic *trewwō (Fidelity, pledge.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*derwo- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*trewwō | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Fidelity, pledge. |
*drew-o- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*trewą | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Tree. |
trēow | Old English (ca. 450-1100) (ang) | |
trew | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
tree | English (en) | (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.. (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges.. (graphical user [...] |