N. trî prep. “through” (Category: to Enter)
A preposition meaning “through” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ON. trī under the root ᴹ√TER(ES) “pierce” (Ety/TER), so presumably derived from *trē with ancient ē > ī as usual in Noldorin and Sindarin. In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road Christopher Tolkien gave the Noldorin and Old Noldorin forms as trî and trí following the usual orthographic conventions of those languages (LR/392), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne indicated they were both trī in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/18).
References ✧ Ety/NAR², TER; EtyAC/TER
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| tre- | prefix | ✧ Ety/NAR² |
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| ON. trī > trī | [trī] | ✧ Ety/TER |