ellifu
Old Norse
[edit]| ← 10 | 11 | 12 → [a], [b], [c] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: ellifu Ordinal: ellipti, ellifti | ||
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *ainalif. Compare Old Saxon ellevan, Old English endleofan, Old Frisian andlova, Old High German einlif, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐍆 (ainlif).
The final -u is usually explained as a secondary development by analogy to tíu (“ten”),[1][2] though Voyles favours a derivation from the Proto-Indo-European participial suffix *-onts.[3]
Numeral
[edit]ellifu
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: ellefu
- Faroese: ellivu
- Norwegian: elleve
- Jamtish: elluv
- Elfdalian: ellåv
- Old Swedish: ællivu, ællivo, ællevo, ælleve, ælleva, ællovo, ællova
- Old Danish: ællifu, ællæuæ, ælløuæ, ællefue
- Danish: elleve
- Gutnish: elve, elvå, elvu
References
[edit]- ^ Fulk, R[obert] D. (September 2018), “Numerals”, in A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (Studies in Germanic Linguistics; 3)[1], Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, , →ISBN, →LCCN, § 10.2, page 228.
- ^ Lloyd, Albert L.; Lühr, Rosemarie (1998), “einlif”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen[2] (in German), volumes II: bî–ezzo, Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN
- ^ Voyles, Joseph (1987), “The Cardinal Numerals in Pre-and Proto-Germanic”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology[3], volume 86, number 1, University of Illinois Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 490.
Further reading
[edit]- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ellifu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive