teenty
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Etymology 2
Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.
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teenty
- (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
- Krieger, Wendy (2008 September 15 (last accessed)) “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.
- Krieger, Wendy (2008 September 15 (last accessed)) “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
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