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teenty

English

Etymology

  • ten +? -ty

Perhaps from Old English hund-t?onti? (compare hund-seofonti?, hund-eahtati?, hund-ni?onti?, hund-endleofanti?, and hund-twelfti? for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.

Numeral

teenty

  1. (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
    • Krieger, Wendy (accessed 2008-09-15) , “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?[1]
      Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.

Synonyms

  • short hundred

Antonyms

  • twelfty

Related terms

  • eleventy

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eleventy

English

Etymology

eleven +? -ty, from Old English hundendlefti? (also spelled hund-endleofanti?, hund-endlyfti?, and hund-ællefti?). Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??l?v?nti/

Numeral

eleventy

  1. (informal) The number 110, 11 × 10.
  2. (colloquial) An indefinite large number.

Related terms

  • eleventeen

Translations

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