zwanzig

== German == === Alternative forms === zwantzig, zweinzig, zweintzig, zwenzig, zwentzig, zweynzig, zweyntzig, zwainzig, zwaintzig, zwayntzig (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle High German zweinzec, from Old High German zweinzug, from Proto-Germanic *twaintigaz, *twai tigiwiz. Cognate with Dutch twintig, West Frisian tweintich, English twenty, Danish tyve. The form zwanzig goes back to dialects that had early on lowered Middle High German -ei- to [aɪ̯] (especially Bavarian); elsewhere the contraction yielded zwenzig, which waned around 1700 along with the uncontracted zweinzig. === Pronunciation === (standard) IPA(key): /ˈtsvantsɪç/, [ˈt͡sʋän.t͡sɪç] (Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) IPA(key): /ˈtsvantsɪk/ Hyphenation: zwan‧zig Rhymes: -ant͡sɪç === Numeral === zwanzig (cardinal number) twenty ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== zwei === Further reading === “zwanzig”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “zwanzig” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “zwanzig” in Duden online zwanzig on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de