achtste

Dutch

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Cardinal: acht     Ordinal: achtste

Etymology

From acht +‎ -ste.

Displaced Middle Dutch achtende, from Old Dutch *ahtundo, which had -n- by analogy with *sivondo (“seventh”) and *nigundo (“ninth”). An even older form was Middle Dutch achte, achtte, from Old Dutch *ahtodo, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑx(t)stə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: acht‧ste

Adjective

achtste (not comparable)

1. eighth

Declension

Declension of achtste
uninflected	achtste
inflected	achtste
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		achtste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	achtste
	n. sing.	achtste
	plural	achtste
definite		achtste
partitive		—

Descendants

• Afrikaans: agste
• Negerhollands: akste, agtste
• → Sranan Tongo: achtste

Anagrams

• schatte

West Frisian

West Frisian ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : acht     Ordinal : achtste

Etymology

From Old Frisian achtunda, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxstə/, /ˈakstə/

Adjective

achtste

1. eighth

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “achtste”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011