tuttugu

Icelandic

Icelandic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tuttugu     Ordinal : tuttugasti

Etymology

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

Numeral

tuttugu

1. 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)

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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

1. (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