Etymology Explorer › Middle English

Where does “sevynty” come from?

sevynty (Middle English) comes from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic sebuntēhundą — seventy.

Ancestry of “sevynty”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishhundseofontiġ—
2Proto-Germanicsebuntēhundąseventy

Words derived from “sevynty”

  • seventy
  • seventyish
  • seventyfold
  • seventi
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