sevententhe

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === seventenþe seventeneth, seventenyth (Late Middle English) seventend, sevintende (Northern, Northeast Midland); sevyntend (Early Scots) === Etymology === A remodelling of seventethe (Old English seofontēoþa) on the basis of tenthe (“tenth”); by surface analysis, seventene (“seventeen”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix). For forms with /d/, compare Old Norse sjautándi. seofontēoþa is from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō tehundō, itself from Proto-Germanic *sebundô tehundô. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsɛvəntɛnð(ə)/, /ˈsɛvənˌteːnð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈsɛvəntɛnd/, /ˈsɛvənˌteːnd/, /ˈsɛ̞ːvən-/ (Northern) === Adjective === sevententhe seventeenth Synonym: seventethe ==== Descendants ==== English: seventeenth Middle Scots: sevinteint Scots: seeventeent, seiventeent === Noun === sevententhe One of seventeen parts of a whole; a seventeenth. Synonym: seventethe ==== Descendants ==== English: seventeenth Middle Scots: sevinteint Scots: seeventeent, seiventeent === References === “sē̆ventẹ̄nthe, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “sevintend, -te(i)nt, -teinth, adj.”, 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.