trais

trais

1. inflection of traire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

trais

1. alternative form of trey (“three in dice”)

• treis (Guernsey)

From an Old Northern French [Term?] variant of Old French troy, treis, from Latin trēs.

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trais

1. (Jersey) three

• trais chents (“three hundred”)
• trais-reues (“tricycle”)
• traîsième (“third”)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophones: trás (Brazil), traz (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: trais

trais

1. second-person singular present indicative of trair

• treis (Sursilvan, Surmiran)
• tres (Sutsilvan)

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trais

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) three

From Middle Welsh treys (“abduction, rape”), related to Irish tréas (“rebellion, treason”); both are probably borrowed from Old French traison (“treason”), or its source, the verb trair (“to betray”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /trai̯s/

trais m (plural treisiau or treision)

1. violence, force
2. rape

• di-drais (“nonviolent”)
• treisio (“to rape”)
• treisiol (“violent”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies