fyrretyve

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Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Older form of fyrre. From Old Danish fyritiughu, from Old Norse fjórir tigir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (forty, literally four tens), cognate with Norwegian førti, Swedish fyrtio, English forty, German vierzig, among others.

Note that the suffix -tyve in fyrretyve means “ten”, unlike the word tyve (of different origin: from Old Danish tiughu, from Old Norse tuttugu, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz (twenty, literally two tens)), which means “twenty” and which also forms part of the dated forms of the higher tens: halvtredsindstyve (fifty, literally two and a half times twenty), tresindstyve (sixty, literally three times twenty) etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈførəˌtyːvə/, ,

Numeral

fyrretyve

  1. forty
    Synonyms: fyrre, firti

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