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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fimftehun</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_fimftehun</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>fimftehun</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɸimɸ.te.xun</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚠᛁᛗᚠᛏᛖᚺᚢᚾ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>numeral</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>fifteen</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Compound of *fimf (‘five’) + *tehun (‘ten’).</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*fīftian</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>vijftien</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>vijftien</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                        <orth>vyftien</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old English</lang>
                  <orth>fīftīene</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle English</lang>
                    <orth>fiftene</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>English</lang>
                      <orth>fifteen</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                  <orth>fīftīne</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>füüftien</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>fyftjin</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>fīftein</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>*viftien</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                      <orth>feftieen</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>fimfzehan, finfzehan</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>vünfzehn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>fünfzehn</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                      <orth>fofzéng</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                      <orth>פֿופֿצן (fuftsn)</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fimmtán</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>fimtan</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>fimmtán</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>fjomtan</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>femten</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fimmtán</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>fæmtan, fæmtæn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>femten</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>fimmtán</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>fæmtan</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>femton</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (fimftaihun)</orth>
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              </item>
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