tuttugu

Icelandic

Icelandic numbers ^(edit)

		200
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		2
Cardinal: tuttugu     Ordinal: tuttugasti     Ordinal abbreviation: 20.     Fractional: tuttugasti

Etymology

From Old Norse tuttugu, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz.

Numeral

tuttugu (indeclinable)

1. twenty

   Synonym: tvítján

Old Norse

Old Norse numbers ^(edit)

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		2
Cardinal: tuttugu, tveir tigir, tjugu, tjogu, tvittuga, tvítján     Ordinal: tuttugti, tuttugundi, tuttugandi, tuttugasti, tvítjándi

Alternative forms

• tjugu, tjogu, tvittuga

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old English twentig, Old High German zweinzug.

Numeral

tuttugu

1. (cardinal number) twenty

   Synonym: tvítján

Descendants

• Icelandic: tuttugu
• Faroese: tjúgu
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tjugo, tjuge, tjue
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: tjue
• Elfdalian: tjugu, tiugu
• Old Swedish: tiughu
  • Swedish: tjugo
• Old Danish: tiughæ, tiughu
  • Danish: tyve
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tyve
• Gutnish: tjugu, tjugå, tugå, tjaugu

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tuttugu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive