Where does “seventy” come from?

Seventy comes from Middle English sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic sebuntēhundą, a compound meaning seven tens.

seventy (English): The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine...

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “seventy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishseventyseventy
2Old Englishhundseofontiġseventy
3Proto-Germanicsebuntēhundąseventy

Words derived from “seventy”

Every word from Proto-Germanic sebuntēhundą →Every word from Old English hundseofontiġ →Every word from Middle English seventy →