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How to say the number 92(i.imgur.com)

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MartinXYZ@kbin.social
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I’ve always found the Danish numbers intriguing. I understand the whole “halvfem-sinds-tyve”- thing and the other ones of similar origin but I can’t wrap my head around “elleve” and “tolv”. Do you remember the origin of those?

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Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
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It’s literally the same in English as well, eleven and twelve are clearly related.

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SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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Not really, but they’re essentially the same as the German “elf” and “zwölf”, so we probably got them from the same place as them ;)

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vidarh@lemmy.world
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Wiktionary suggests the common proto-Germanic root of eleven/twelve, elf/zwölf are likely to have been “ainalif” and “twalif” - “one left over” and “two left over”.

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samus12345@lemmy.world
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You can thank Proto-Germanic for that.

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