Altered spelling
of German Treis, a topographic name for someone who lived by or
owned an uncultivated piece of land used as pasture, from Middle Low
German drisch ‘fallow land’, or a habitational name from a
place named with this word (in Hessian dialect treis), in Hesse
or on the Mosel river. Alternatively, in some instances it may be from
a short form of the personal name Andreas (see Andrew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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