Try
Middle English: from Old French trier ‘sift’, of unknown origin. Sense 1 of the noun dates from the early 17th century.
wiktionary
From Middle English trien(“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier(“to try a case”), Old French trier(“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer(“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽( tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną(“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der-(“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar(“to pick out, choose from among others”). Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.
Replaced native Middle English cunnen(“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien(“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien(“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).
Probably from Old French trié.
etymonline
try (v.)
c. 1300, "examine judiciously, discover by evaluation, test;" mid-14c., "sit in judgment of," also "attempt to do," from Anglo-French trier (13c.), from Old French trier "to pick out, cull" (12c.), from Gallo-Roman *triare, of unknown origin. The ground sense is "separate out (the good) by examination." Sense of "subject to some strain" (of patience, endurance, etc.) is recorded from 1530s. To try on "test the fit of a garment" is from 1690s; to try (something) on for size in the figurative sense is recorded by 1946. Try and instead of try to is recorded from 1680s.
try (n.)
late 15c., "screen for sifting," from try (v.). From 1832 as "an effort, an attempt."
