achtzane

Cimbrian

Cimbrian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : achtzane     Ordinal : achtzante     Attributive : achtzan

Etymology

From Middle High German ahzehen, from Old High German ahtozehan, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with German achtzehn, Dutch achttien, English eighteen, Icelandic átján.

Numeral

achtzane (dative achtzan)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) eighteen

   zibantzane, achtzane, nòintzane ― seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

   Achtzane ist de sait benne puuben und diarn bissent das mòant puulan.

   Eighteen is the age at which young men and women know what love means.

References

• “achtzane” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien