Etymograph

English

treague

Treague comes from Medieval Latin treuga ‘pledge’, from Gothic triggwa ‘treaty, covenant’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drewH-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*drewH-1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*triwwiz2‘true, faithful’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*trewwō3‘fidelity’reconstructed
  4. Gothicc. 300–600triggwa3transliteratedGothic script triggwa, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘treaty, covenant’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500treuga3‘pledge’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1590treague3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *triwwiz
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *trewwō
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English treague
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto II: “She them besought, during their quiet treague, Into her…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*drewH-Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *triwwizreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*triwwizWiktionary, Proto-Germanic *trewwō‘true, faithful’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*trewwōWiktionary, English treague‘fidelity’reconstructed
  4. Gothicc. 300–600triggwaWiktionary, English treaguetransliteratedGothic script triggwa, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘treaty, covenant’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500treugaWiktionary, English treague‘pledge’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1590treagueWiktionary, English treague. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto II: “She them besought, during their quiet treague, Into her…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *drewH-

untrue, 1 more

through Proto-Germanic *triwwiz ‘true, faithful’

true, truth, truly, trig, troth, 1 more

through Proto-Germanic *trewwō ‘fidelity’

truce

Today it means

noun A truce.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “treague”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Germanic *triwwiz, Proto-Germanic *trewwō. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *drewH- / treague

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