why is a tree called a tree????

Answer 1

until 1729 the word tree did not exist. it was coined by the little known English poet, Perkin runtingbold. up until that date trees were known as wooden pointy things. according to anecdotal evidence Perkin's poetry was excruciatingly bad and he had to batter about the language to get it to rhyme. one day he was stuck for a word that rhymed with breeze, 'the breeze in the leevs of the wooden pointy things', didn't work so he made up the word trees. Perkin was beaten to death by an enraged audience at one of his readings who felt cheated by the lack of rhyme, sense and even understandable English. Perkin's whole cannon of work was publicly burnt by cheering crowds, along with the libraries which held them. who knows, if his work had survived he may have been known as the father of free verse. but all we have to remember him by is the word 'tree'.

Answer 2

The reason why a tree is called a tree it is because it has roots. A tree comes from the flower family too, that is why some trees have flowers on them.

Answer 3

A family tree is an analogy to explain how two people have children, their children have children, and the process continues. Depending on your religious point of view, some people refer to Adam and Eve as the ancestors of human kind. However, if you are not religious you could pick one group of great-great-great-great-grandparents. These couples represents the "roots" of your family tree. People always talk about discovering their "roots," and figuratively speaking the roots of the family tree begin with you first known ancestors. The tree "branches" out with each successive generation.

Answer 4

Importance of the oak in mythology is reflected in the recurring use of words for "oak" to mean "tree." In O.E. and M.E., also "thing made of wood," especially the cross of the Crucifixion and a gallows (cf. Tyburn tree, gallows mentioned 12c. at Tyburn, at junction of Oxford Street and Edgware Road, place of public execution for Middlesex until 1783). Sense in family tree first attested 1706; verb meaning "to chase up a tree" is from 1700. Tree-hugger, contemptuous for "environmentalist" is attested by 1989.

Answer 5

I'm sorry Melissa I don't really have a proper answer, for you, but I feel I must have a go at some of the idiots who have replied with stupid answers. To all you half wits who replied with your silly replies. Get a life Melissa asked what to me as a studying genealogist is a real valid question, sadly though I am not yet clued up enough to help her with the question, but I wouldn't dream of replying in the stupid way that most of you have. Good luck sweetheart I hope you get the answer you are looking for .

Answer 6

It's the code that the first english speaking people decided to assign to this object thousands of years ago, other people have different codes indicating this thing (the tree).

Answer 7

Why is man called man?
It is a question that cannot be answered but if i could i'd change it from tree to hippie-hangs PEACE!

Answer 8

because is a tree

Answer 9

TREE
O.E. treo, treow "tree" (also "wood"), from P.Gmc. *trewan (cf. O.Fris. tre, O.S. trio, O.N. tre, Goth. triu), from PIE *deru-/*doru- "oak" (cf. Skt. dru "tree, wood," daru "wood, log;" Gk. drys "oak," doru "spear;" O.C.S. drievo "tree, wood;" Serb. drvo "tree," drva "wood;" Rus. drevo "tree, wood;" Czech drva; Pol. drwa "wood;" Lith. derva "pine wood;" O.Ir. daur, Welsh derwen "oak," Albanian drusk "oak"). Importance of the oak in mythology is reflected in the recurring use of words for "oak" to mean "tree." In O.E. and M.E., also "thing made of wood," especially the cross of the Crucifixion and a gallows (cf. Tyburn tree, gallows mentioned 12c. at Tyburn, at junction of Oxford Street and Edgware Road, place of public execution for Middlesex until 1783). Sense in family tree first attested 1706; verb meaning "to chase up a tree" is from 1700. Tree-hugger, contemptuous for "environmentalist" is attested by 1989.
"Minc'd Pyes do not grow upon every tree,
But search the Ovens for them, and there they be."
["Poor Robin," Almanack, 1669]

Answer 10

its probly an accronym fo some sort from way back when!! that evolved into an official word similar to how google is now listed in the dictionary, if it's commonly used in a variety of text it can become an official word