Where does “Fe” come from?
Forty comes from Middle English feortiȝ, Old English fēowertiġ, and Proto-Germanic fedwōr tigiwiz, a compound of the words for "four" and "ten."
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Ancestry of “Fe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | forty-eighth | The ordinal form of the number forty-eight,... |
| 2 | English | -th | Used to form nouns from verbs of action; Used to... |
| 3 | Middle English | -eth | Used to form the third-person singular present... |
| 4 | Old English | -eþ | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -þi | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ti | — |