Old English

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Old English numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: fēower
    Ordinal: fēorþa
    Age: fēowerwintre
    Multiplier: fēowerfeald

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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fēower

  1. four

Usage notes

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  • In Anglo-Saxon texts, this number was often written using the Roman numeral IIII.
  • This numeral was sometimes inflected for case, but could also be indeclinable.

Declension

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singular plural
nominative fēower
accusative fēower, fēowere
genitive fēowera, fēowra
dative fēowerum

Derived terms

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Descendants

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