teenty
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.
Numeral edit
teenty
- (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
- Krieger, Wendy (2008 September 15 (last accessed)) “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]
- Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.
- Krieger, Wendy (2008 September 15 (last accessed)) “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]