Where does “þritigwintre” come from?

þritigwintre (Old English) comes from Old English þritig, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

þritigwintre (Old English): thirty year(s) old

Definitions

  1. thirty year(s) old

Ancestry of “þritigwintre”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishþritigthirty
2Old Englishþrīthree
3Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
4Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyesEvery word from Proto-Germanic þrīzEvery word from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ