seventene

Middle English

**Middle English numbers ^(edit)**
← 16	17	18 →
Cardinal: seventene

Alternative forms

(Early ME) seoventene, soventene, seofontyne, sceoventene
sevenetene, cevyntene, seventeen, seventen, sevyntene

Etymology

From Anglian Old English seofontēne (compare West Saxon seofontīene), from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Equivalent to seven +‎ -tene.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənteːn(ə)/, /ˈsɛːvənteːn(ə)/

Numeral

seventene

seventeen

Descendants

English: seventeen
Scots: seiventeen
Yola: zeventeen

References

“sē̆ventẹ̄n(e, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-18.

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