féowertig

féowertig
num forty; ordinal \féowertigoða

Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.

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  • feowertig — forty …   The Old English to English

  • forty — feowertig …   English to the Old English

  • forty — noun (plural forties) Etymology: Middle English fourty, adjective, from Old English fēowertig, from fēowertig group of 40, from fēower four + tig group of 10; akin to Old English tīen ten Date: before 12th century 1. see number table 2. plural… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Vierzig — Vierzig, (sprich virrzig,) adj. indeclin. welches zu den Hauptzahlen gehöret, vier zehn mahl genommen. Vierzig Tage, Jahre, Thaler. Es waren ihrer vierzig. Einer von vierzigen. Er ist schon in die vierzig, ist schon vierzig Jahr alt und darüber.… …   Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • kʷetwer- — Four. Derivatives include four, squad, quarantine, and farthing. I. O grade form *kʷetwor . 1. a. four, from Old English fēower, four; b …   Universalium

  • forty — /fawr tee/, n., pl. forties, adj. n. 1. a cardinal number, ten times four. 2. a symbol for this number, as 40 or XL or XXXX. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. forties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 40 through 49, as in… …   Universalium

  • Tribal Hidage — Lageplan der Königreiche und Stammesgebiete Das Tribal Hidage ist eine Liste, welche die Größe von 34 südlich des Humber gelegenen angelsächsischen Königreichen und Stammesgebieten angibt.[1] Inhaltsverzeichnis …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • rím — 1 n ( es/ ) number, counting, reckoning; calendar, numeral; 1. the precise sum or aggregate of any collection of individual things or persons; 2. a particular sum or aggregate of units, of a kind specified or implied in the context; 3. the… …   Old to modern English dictionary

  • forty — for|ty [ˈfo:ti US ˈfo:rti] number [: Old English; Origin: feowertig, from feower four ] 1.) the number 40 2.) the forties [plural] also the 40s, the 1940s the years from 1940 to 1949 ▪ The place was built as a casino in the forties. the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fortieth — O.E. feowertigoða, from feowertig (see FORTY (Cf. forty)) + TH (Cf. th)). Cf. O.N. fertugonde, Swed. fyrationde, Dan. fyrretyvende …   Etymology dictionary

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