fyrretyve

== Danish == === Alternative forms === fyrre === Etymology === Older form of fyrre. From Old Danish fyritiughu, from Old Norse fjórir tigir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”, literally “four tens”), cognate with Norwegian førti, Swedish fyrtio, English forty, German vierzig, among others. Note that the suffix -tyve in fyrretyve means “ten”, unlike the word tyve (of different origin: from Old Danish tiughu, from Old Norse tuttugu, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz (“twenty”, literally “two tens”)), which means “twenty” and which also forms part of the dated forms of the higher tens: halvtredsindstyve (“fifty”, literally “two and a half times twenty”), tresindstyve (“sixty”, literally “three times twenty”) etc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈførəˌtyːvə/, [ˈfɶɐ̯ɐˌtˢyːʋə], [-ˌtˢyːʊ] === Numeral === fyrretyve forty Synonyms: fyrre, firti === References === “fyrretyve” in Den Danske Ordbog “fyrretyve” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog “tyve,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog