Why is a tree called a tree?

Question

Why is a tree called a tree?

Answer 1

Because people might become confused if you called a tree a cauliflower or a rhinoceros.

Answer 2

why is a grass called a grass?

why is a hand called a hand?

why is air called air?

why is the sky called the sky?

why is a human called a human?

why is a dog called a dog...

wow...with all these mysteries, I might not be able to sleep at night..o_o

Answer 3

because people who made english thought that tree would best suit the weird lookin thing so called tree today!!!

Answer 4

It's a very old word which has forms in many ancient languages. The modern English "tree" is from the Middle English "tréo". It's such an old word that it's origin is lost now. Probably existed before written communication.

This is an Etymology question rather than a Botany question.

Answer 5

It has its roots in Old English (treo/treow) and Proto-Germanic (treewan). Proto-Germanic is the hypothetical ancestor of all germanic languages, including english.

Answer 6

A nose by any other name would smell as sweet

Answer 7

Why not?

Answer 8

why is a car called a car?

Answer 9

why is fruit called fruit

Answer 10

Because our ancestors who first started talking would have made a grunt to identify a 'tree'. Others would have then copied this grunt and it would have evolved with clarity and become more widely known. And everybody would have started calling a tree -a tree. xx

Answer 11

-_- zzzzzzzz.... Y DO I BOTHER?

Answer 12

why always repeats.

why did you ask this question?

answer that

why?

answer that

why?

answer that

why?

answer that

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i don't know

why are you called adam?

why?

why?

why?

...

Answer 13

i dont know

its just a name given

Answer 14

same reason a flower is called a flower.

lol come on m8 wake up u must have a brain somewhere

Answer 15

So that when it falls in the Forrest you cant  hear it! if it was called something else and you listened real hard maybe you might just hear it fall, but then if you weren't listening hard and you heard it fall you wouldn't know what it was that fell cause it didn't have a name ,but it does . be glad you know its name,though it doesn't have a back or front it has a behind, so bears can relieve themselves gratefull are those who know its name and you are one of them!!