An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/dritte
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| This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry dritte. | Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language |
dritte, ordinal of drei, ‘third,’ Middle High German dritte, Old High German dritto; corresponds to Gothic þridja; Anglo-Saxon þridda, English third. þri- is the stem (see Drillich), dja the suffix, which forms the ordinal from the cardinal; it is -lio- in Latin tertius Sanscrit tṛtîya-s. —