teenty
numEtymology * ten + -ty Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.
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Nonstandard One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
- Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.Krieger, Wendy (15 September 2008 (last accessed)), “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Synonyms
- short hundred
- Related terms
- eleventy (110), twelfty (120)