thrittene

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === threttene, thryttene, þirttene, þrettenne, þriteene, þritten, þrittene þreitene, þreottene (Early Middle English) thirteen, thirteene, thredtene, thretteene, thretyne, throttene (Late Middle English) therten, thritiene, thyrdtene, þirtene (East Anglia); þretene, þrettene, þrottene (Southern, Southwest Midland) thirten, threteine, thretten (Northern); þryttene (Northeast Midland) === Etymology === From Anglian Old English þreotēne (compare West Saxon Old English þreotīene), from Proto-Germanic *þritehun; equivalent to thre +‎ -tene. Forms with /i/ either continue the vowel of Proto-West Germanic *þritehun or are influenced by thritty (“30”), while forms with -tt- (and a consequent short vowel) are influenced by that number or the ordinal thrittenthe, thrittethe (Old English þreottēoþa). Northern forms with /ˈθrɛ-/ are likely influenced by Old Norse þrettán. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈθriˌteːn(ə)/, (especially East Anglia, Northern, Southern) /ˈθrɛ-/, (rare) /ˈθreː-/ IPA(key): /ˈθirˌtiːn/ (Late Middle English, metathetic) === Numeral === thrittene thirteen 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Somnour's Tale", in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Rev. Walter W. Skeat, editor, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 4, Second Edition, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Humphrey Milford, 1900, →OCLC, lines 2253–2261 (547–553) ==== Related terms ==== thrittenthe thrittethe ==== Descendants ==== English: thirteen (dialectal throtteen) Middle Scots: thertene, therttene, threttein, threttene Scots: thirteen Yola: dhurteen ==== References ==== “thrī̆tẹ̄ne, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “thretten(e, -ein(e, thert(t)ene, 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. “thrittene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.