Time & numbers

three

Source:*trьjeProto-Slaviccertain

The soft r before i became Polish rz and Czech ř: trzy, tři.

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English

three

Polish

trzy

tʂɨ

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
триtri
trʲiinherited
Ukrainian
триtry
trɪinherited
Polish
trzy
tʂɨinherited
Czech
tři
tr̝ɪinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
triтри
triinherited
English
three
Distant English relative — Three and три share the Indo-European numeral *tréyes.