*fimf
Runic: ᚠᛁᛗᚠ Pronunciation: /ˈɸimɸ/numeral
Meanings
five
Etymology
From pre-Germanic *pémpe, with an irregular consonant change of the second *-p-from Proto-Indo-European *pénkwe (‘five’), due to a sporadic change of PIE *kw > *p after resonants in words starting with a labial (Kroonen 2013); the expected form would have been **finhw. Cognates are Old Albanian pensë, Old Armenian հինգ (hing), Lithuanian penki̇̀, Irish cúig, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte) (pénte), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬗𐬀 (paṇca) (paṇca), Latin quīnque, and Proto-Tocharian *p'ä́ñćä, all meaning ‘five’. Possibly related to *funstiz (‘fist’) and *fingraz (‘finger’).
Descendants
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf, vīf (Old Dutch)
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vijf (Middle Dutch)
- vief (Limburgish)
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vijf (Middle Dutch)
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fīf, vīf (Old Dutch)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf, vīf (Old Dutch)
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vijf (Middle Dutch)
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vijf (Dutch)
- vyf (Afrikaans)
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vijf (Dutch)
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vijf (Middle Dutch)
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fīf, vīf (Old Dutch)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf (Old English)
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five, fife, fif, fyve, vif, vive (Middle English)
- five (English)
- five, fif, fife, fyve (Scots)
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five, fife, fif, fyve, vif, vive (Middle English)
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fīf (Old English)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf (Old Frisian)
- fieuw (Saterland Frisian)
- fiif (West Frisian)
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fīf (Old Frisian)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fimf (Old High German)
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vinf, vünf (Middle High German)
- foif, föif, füüf, fünf (Alemannic German)
- fimf (Bavarian)
- fönnef, fennef, fief (Central Franconian)
- fönff (East Central German)
- fünf (German)
- fënnef (Luxembourgish)
- fimf (Pennsylvania German)
- פֿינף (finf) (Yiddish)
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vinf, vünf (Middle High German)
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fimf (Old High German)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf (Old Saxon)
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vîf (Middle Low German)
- fief (Plautdietsch)
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vîf (Middle Low German)
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fīf (Old Saxon)
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*fimf (Proto-West Germanic)
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fīf (Old Saxon)
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vîf (Middle Low German)
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fief (Low German)
- fief, fiew, fiev (Low German)
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fief (Low German)
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vîf (Middle Low German)
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fīf (Old Saxon)
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ᚠᛁᛘ (fim), ᚠᛁᛙ (fim), fimm (Old Norse)
- fimm (Faroese)
- fimm (Icelandic)
- fem (Norwegian Nynorsk)
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ᚠᛁᛘ (fim), ᚠᛁᛙ (fim), fimm (Old Norse)
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fæm (Old Danish)
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fem (Danish)
- fem (Norwegian Bokmål)
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fem (Danish)
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fæm (Old Danish)
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ᚠᛁᛘ (fim), ᚠᛁᛙ (fim), fimm (Old Norse)
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fæm (Old Swedish)
- fem (Swedish)
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fæm (Old Swedish)
- 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 (fimf) (Gothic)
- fyuf (Crimean Gothic)