*fedwōr tigiwiz

Runic: ᚠᛖᛞᚹᛟᚱ ᛏᛁᚷᛁᚹᛁᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈɸeð.wɔːr ˈti.ɣi.wiz/

numeral

Meanings

forty (with genitive)

Etymology

From *fedwōr (‘four’) + *tigiwiz, plural of *teguz (‘group of ten’), literally ‘four groups of ten’.

Descendants

  • feuwar-tigī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *fiortig, *viurtig (Old Dutch)
      • viertich, viertech, vēertich, vēertech (Middle Dutch)
        • veertig (Limburgish)
  • feuwar-tigī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *fiortig, *viurtig (Old Dutch)
      • viertich, viertech, vēertich, vēertech (Middle Dutch)
        • veertig (Dutch)
          • veertig (Afrikaans)
  • feuwar-tigī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fēowertiġ (Old English)
      • forty (Middle English)
        • forty (English)
        • fowerty, foorty (Scots)
        • vorty (Yola)
  • feuwar-tigī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fiūwertich (Old Frisian)
      • fjautich (Saterland Frisian)
      • fjirtich (West Frisian)
  • feuwar-tigī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • fiuwartig (Old Saxon)
      • viertich (Middle Low German)
        • veertig (Low German)
        • vieetich (Plautdietsch)
  • fiorzug (Old High German)
    • vierzic (Middle High German)
      • viarskh, viartzekh (Cimbrian)
      • vierzig (German)
      • véierzeg (Luxembourgish)
      • פֿערציק (fertsik) (Yiddish)
  • fjórir tigir, fjórutigi (Old Norse)
    • fjøruti (Faroese)
    • fjörutíu (Icelandic)
    • førti (Norwegian)
  • fjórir tigir, fjórutigi (Old Norse)
    • fyrretyve, fyrre (Danish)
      • førr (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • fjórir tigir, fjórutigi (Old Norse)
    • fiūratighi, fȳretighi, fyrætio (Old Swedish)
      • fyrtio (Swedish)
  • 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus) (Gothic)

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