Description:

The term 'tres' was borrowed from the English word 'trace', in the sense of a small amount or a sign of something (usually talking about detection of chemicals such as the use of chemical weapons) during the middle period, and experienced a considerable broadening of its semantic meaning. It came to also mean a track or sign when tracking someone or something, and form there a footprint, an outlinbe, and metaphorically, a rough description.

Noun:

As a noun, 'tres' can have many meanings - a whiff (of something smells or detected in the air), a footprint or other sign that someone was previously there, an outline (especially in art), a description (with the implication that it is a rough, high-level description). In Common grammar, grammarians say that a modifier moved out of the determiner-head term bracket leaves 'ny tres' behind, triggering a grammatical process that makes a head term mandatory and not optional.

Verb:

As a verb, 'tres' is a transitive skurun verb, so Common thinks of 'tres' as affecting its object in some way - this is a little surprising to learners, as 'tres' seems like a perfectly reasonable noxaj verb. It means to trace something, to follow something, to draw an outline of something, or to describe something in a rough, high-level way. It takes an ergative tracer and an absolutive thing traced.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'tresys' is a modifier of quantity that means a small or barely detectable quantity of something.