eightety

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === eiȝteti, eiȝtety, eiȝti eyty (East Anglia); eiteti, eyteti (West Midland) eyȝty, eyte (Promptorium Parvulorum); aghty (Catholicon Anglicum) achtie, achty, auchte, auchti, auchty, auchy, awchti, awchy (Early Scots) === Etymology === From Old English eahtatiġ, alteration of hundeahtatiġ, itself a modification of Proto-Germanic *ahtōutēhundą; equivalent to eighte +‎ -ty. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæi̯xt(ə)tiː/, (generally Northern) /ˈau̯xt(ə)tiː/ === Numeral === eightety eighty ==== Related terms ==== eightetithe ==== Descendants ==== English: eighty Middle Scots: auchtie Scots: eichty, auchty ==== References ==== “eightetī, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “auchty, 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.