teenty

teenty

English

Etymology

• 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.

Numeral

teenty

1. (nonstandard) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
   • Krieger, Wendy (accessed 2008-09-15), “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎

     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.

Synonyms

• short hundred

Antonyms

• twelfty

Related terms

• eleventy