seventene

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: seventene     Ordinal: sevententhe, seventethe

Alternative forms

• sevenetene, seventeen, seventen, sevyntene
• sceoventene, seoventene, soventene (Laȝamon's Brut); cevyntene (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• sevynten, sewinten, sewynten, sewyntene (Early Scots)

Etymology

From Anglian Old English seofontēne (compare West Saxon seofontīene), from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Equivalent to seven +‎ -tene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənteːn(ə)/, /ˈsɛ̞ːvənteːn(ə)/

Numeral

seventene

1. seventeen

Related terms

• sevententhe
• seventethe

Descendants

• English: seventeen
• Middle Scots: sevintene, sewintene
  • Scots: seiventeen
• Yola: zeventeen

References

• “sē̆ventẹ̄n(e, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 December 2018.
• “sevinten(e, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.