Talk:tre

IPA for Danish "tre" please?

RFV discussion: November–December 2021
As opposed to which is the only form I can actually find being used. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 14:53, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Tre is the name of this instrument. The word “tres” is actually a plural, not singular. There is no plural of the plural like “tres” for example. 176.88.30.224 15:55, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
 * There are no support votes. This is RFV. Provide at least three citations that meet the conditions described in WT:CFI or the word will get deleted. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 16:04, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You're welcome to submit and  to rfv, but I already know there are more than enough examples of usage for both to pass with flying colors. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:11, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 20:03, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Middle English or Scots
From the Robert Burns version of "Tam Lin," final stanza:

But had I kend, Tom-lin,' she says, What now this night I see, I wad has ta'en out thy twa grey een, And put in twa een o' tree.

There is a [] suggestion that this means that the Faerie Queen would have turned Tan Lin into a tree. But the alternate spellings and the meaning of the story itself suggest that the word used means "true." The Queen, as implied in the story, loves Tam Lin (For she's [Janet] ta-en awa the boniest knight/In a' my companie.) She forgives Tam Lin and would have let him go for his true love, Janet, and let him see things as they really were, not as things were in the world of Faerie. If only she had known. This might only be a Scots spelling and not one that you'd see in Middle English. Eric