different between twelfty vs eleventy

English

Alternative forms

• twelvety

Etymology

twelve +? -ty, from Old English hundtwelfti?. Compare hundseofonti?, hundeahtatig, hundni?onti? and hundt?onti? for modern seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system. This hund was used for counting higher decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. Hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of Latin centum (“100”), and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.

Numeral

twelfty

1. (nonstandard) One hundred (and) twenty; 120.

Related terms

• eleventy

Translations

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