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Where does “ninety” come from?

Ninety comes from Old English hundniġontiġ, from Proto-Germanic newuntēhundą, a compound of "nine" and "hundred."

ninety (English): The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine...

Definitions

  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine...

Ancestry of “ninety”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishnynty—
2Old Englishhundniġontiġ—
3Proto-Germanicnewuntēhundąninety

Words derived from “ninety”

  • ninetyfold
  • ninetyish
  • nainti
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