thrittene

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thirttene

Etymology

From Anglian Old English þreotēne (compare West Saxon þreotīene), from Proto-Germanic *þritehun; equivalent to thre +‎ -tene.

Numeral

cardinal number

13	Previous:	twelve
	Next:	fourtene

thrittene

1. thirteen

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Descendants

• English: thirteen (dialectal throtteen)
• Scots: thirteen, thritteen
• Yola: dhurteen

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thrittene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)