tret

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English [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

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Noun [edit]

tret (plural trets)

  1. (obsolete) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.

Etymology 2 [edit]

Probably by analogy with Germanic verbs such as meet, met.

Verb [edit]

tret

  1. (Yorkshire, colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of treat

Albanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *trii̯ǝto, *trīto 'sea, watery'. Cognate Old Irish trïath (sea) and perhaps to Ancient Greek Τρί̄των (water deity)[1].

Verb [edit]

tret (first-person singular past tense treta, participle tretur)

  1. I dissolve, digest, melt down, lose weight
  2. I throw away

References [edit]

  1. ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke

Catalan [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin tractus.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

tret m (plural trets)

  1. trait
  2. shot (with a gun)

Etymology 2 [edit]

See treure

Verb [edit]

tret

  1. Past participle of treure.
  2. Past participle of traure.