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 Englishnyntyninety
2Old Englishhundniġontiġninety
3Proto-Germanicnewuntēhundąninety

Words derived from “ninety”

Every word from Proto-Germanic newuntēhundą →Every word from Old English hundniġontiġ →Every word from Middle English nynty →