Where does “thirty” come from?

Thirty comes from Middle English thritti, from Old English þritiġ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz tigiwiz, literally meaning "three tens."

thirty (English): The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine...

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “thirty”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishthirty
2Old Englishþritigthirty
3Old Englishþrīthree
4Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
5Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes

Words derived from “thirty

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyesEvery word from Proto-Germanic þrīzEvery word from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ