Where does “tretten” come from?
tretten (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Bokmål tretten, from Danish tretten, from Old Norse þrettán, from Proto-Germanic þritehun, from Proto-Germanic tehun, from Proto-Indo-European déḱm̥t — ten.
tretten (Norwegian Nynorsk): thirteen
Ancestry of “tretten”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tretten | thirteen; definite masculine singular of trette |
| 2 | Danish | tretten | thirteen |
| 3 | Old Norse | þrettán | thirteen |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | þritehun | thirteen |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | tehun | ten |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | déḱm̥t | ten |