Etymology

trews

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Today it means: Trousers, especially if close-fitting and tartan. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic triubhas ← Middle Irish triubus
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The story

  1. Middle Irish · derived fromtriubus
  2. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromtriubhas
  3. English todaytrews

From Scottish Gaelic triubhas, from Middle Irish triubus.

Words from the same roots

Middle Irishtriubus all →

trousers

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.