fourty

English

Numeral

fourty

1. Obsolete spelling of forty.
   • 1719—1762, George Waldo Browne, editor, Early Records of Londonderry, Windham, and Derry, N. H., published 1908:

     [I]t is also voted and hereby to be understood that we have concluded to pay yearly or per annum one hundred and fourty pounds Salary […]

2. Misspelling of forty.
   • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review‎^[1], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:

     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

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	4
Cardinal: fourty     Ordinal: fourtithe

Alternative forms

• fourti, feortiȝ, forty, vourty

Etymology

From Old English fēowertiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz; equivalent to four +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔu̯rti/, /ˈfɔu̯rtiː/

Numeral

fourty

1. forty

Descendants

• English: forty
• Yola: vorty

References

• “fourtī̆, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.