tuttugu

Icelandic

**Icelandic cardinal numbers**
< 19	20	21 >
Cardinal : tuttugu Ordinal : tuttugasti

Etymology

From Old Norse tuttugu, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz.

Numeral

tuttugu

twenty; the cardinal number after nítján and before tuttugu og einn.

Synonyms

(twenty): tvítján

Related terms

(ordinal form): tuttugasti m, tuttugasta f or n

Old Norse

**Old Norse numbers ^(edit)**
← 10	← 19	20	21 →	30 → ^{[a], [b]}
		2
Cardinal: tuttugu, tveir tigir, tjugu, tjogu, tvittuga, tvítján Ordinal: tuttugti, tuttugundi, tuttugandi, tuttugasti, tvítjándi

Alternative forms

tjugu, tjogu, tvittuga

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old English twentig, Old High German zweinzug.

Numeral

tuttugu

(cardinal number) twenty
Synonym: tvítján

Descendants

Icelandic: tuttugu
Faroese: tjúgu
Norwegian Nynorsk: tjugo, tjuge, tjue
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tjue
Elfdalian: tjugu, tşugu
Old Swedish: tiughu
- Swedish: tjugo
Old Danish: tiughæ, tiughu
- Danish: tyve
  - Norwegian Bokmål: tyve
Gutnish: tjugu, tjugå, tugå, tjaugu

References

“tuttugu”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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