Where does “fīf” come from?

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

fīf (Old Saxon): five

Definitions

  1. five

Ancestry of “fīf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicfimffive
2Proto-Germanicfimffive
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “fīf”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic fimf →Every word from Proto-West Germanic fimf →