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Etymology
Borrowed from English twelve.
Numeral
twelf
- twelve
German Low German
Numeral
twelf
- (Low Prussian) Alternative form of twalf (twelve)
Middle English
Numeral
twelf
- Alternative form of twelve
Middle Scots
Etymology
From Early Scots twelf, from Middle English twelve.
Numeral
twelf
- twelve
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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *twalif, a compound of *twa- (compare two) and *-lif.
Pronunciation
Numeral
twelf
- twelve
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
[Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð.- is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.
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