different between twenty vs teenty

English

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: XX

Etymology

From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English tw?nti? (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) +? *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two +? -ty, or twain +? -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tw?nti/, [?tw???nti]
• (General American) enPR: tw?n?t?, IPA^(key): /?tw?nti/, [?tw????i], /?tw?ni/, [?tw?????i]
• (parts of the US and Canada) IPA^(key): /?tw?n(t)i/, /?tw?n(t)i/
• Rhymes: -?nti, -?nti

Numeral

twenty

1. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

Derived terms

Synonyms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: twenti

Translations

Noun

twenty (plural twenties)

1. (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

   The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
2. (CB slang) 10-20 (location).

   What’s your twenty, good buddy?
3. (Britain, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.

Translations

Middle English

Numeral

twenty

1. Alternative form of twenti

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