treow – Old English noun declension

Noun: treow
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	trēow
Plural	trēowu; trēowa; trēowe

Genitive

Singular	trēowes; trēowe
Plural	trēowa

Dative

Singular	trēowe
Plural	trēowum

Accusative

Singular	trēow; trēowe
Plural	trēowu; trēowa; trēowe

Sample Sentences

"Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 19, verse 4 (Then he ran in front and climbed (lit. ascended) up on a tree. From sycamores that he saw him. For which he would go from there.)
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
...ðā ðā hǣðenan āhēowon þæt trēow mid ormǣtre blisse, þæt hit brastliende sāh tō ðām hālgan were, hetelīċe swīðe. Þā worhte hē onġēan ðām hrēosendum trēowe þǣs Hǣlendes rōde tācn, and hit ðǣrrihte ætstōd, wende ðā onġēan, and hrēas underbæc, and fornēan offēoll ðā ðe hit ǣr forcurfon. (Then the heathens cut down the tree with immense joy, so that, rustling, it fell towards the holy man very violently. Then he made the sign of the Savior's cross to the falling tree, and it immediately stood still, turned around, and fell backwards, and almost fell upon those who had previously cut it.)
late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
⁊ hæfdon ġeleornad mā cræfta hū hīe þā elpendas beswīcan mehton, mid þǣm þæt hīe nāmon trēowu, ⁊ slōgon on oþerne ende moniġe sċearpe īsene næġlas, ⁊ hīe mid flexe bewundon, ⁊ onbǣrndon hit, ⁊ beþyddan hit þonne on þone elpend hindan... (And they had learned more tricks through which they could ensnare the elephants; they took stakes and drove into the other end many sharp iron nails, and wrapped them in flax, and set them on fire, and then thrust them into the elephant from behind...)

Nouns inflected like treow

treow,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian trē, Old Saxon trio, Old Norse tré, Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu). See: Old Norse Nouns 'tré', Gothic Nouns '𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿'.