THREE

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Old English thrīe |Indo-european *TREYES, *TISORES, *TRI | Sanskrit TRÎ, trayaḥ (m), tisraḥ (f), trīṇi (f) | Greek, Attic TPEIΣ, TPIA TRÊS, TRIA | Latin TRES, TRIA | Archaic Latin *TREIES | Italian tre | French trois | Spanish and Catalan tres | Provençal trei, tres | Portuguese três | Romanian trei | Romansh trais | Sardinian très | Old Celtic TRI | Breton tri (m) teir (f) | Welsh tri (m) tair (f) | Irish trí (m), teoir (f, old Irish)triúir (people) | Old Germanic THRIJIZ | Dutch drie | German drei | Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish tre | Icelandic þrír | Old Slavic TRIJE, TRI | Russian три tri | Czech tři | Slovenian trí | Polish trzy | Proto Indo-Iranian *TRAYAS | Persian سه se | Hindi t̪iːn | Old Chinese (pron.) sâm | Chinese 三 sān | Proto-Semitic *SALATh | Semitic root Th-L-Th | Ancient Egyptian [ḫmt’-] khemet | Akkadian shalash | Punic shlosht | Arabic ثلاثة thalathâ | Hebrew שלושה shlôshah | Maltese tlieta | Amharic sost | Magyar három | Turkish üç | Mayan oxi’ | Nahuatl ēyi | Suomi kolme | Zulu (ku)thathu

Three Interesting Facts About the Number 3:

  1. An octopus has 3 hearts.
  2. ‘Bookkeeper’ and ‘bookkeeping’ are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
  3. A number is divisible by 3 when the sum of its digits can be divided by 3.

Two Riddles Involving the Number 3:

  1. Riddle 1: Spell ‘mousetrap’ in 3 letters…Answer:

    C-A-T.

  2. Riddle 2: Spell ‘water’ in 3 letters…Answer:

    H-2-O.  (but 2 isn’t a letter, if we’re being picky)

One Deep Thought Including the Number 3:

  1. Deep thought: “There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t”.

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