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Where does “fīf” come from?

fīf (Old Frisian) comes from Proto-Germanic fimf, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

Ancestry of “fīf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicfimffive
2Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “fīf”

  • fiif
  • fieuw
  • fif
  • fiuw
  • fiiw
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