Where does “ficheadamh” come from?

ficheadamh (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish fichetmad, from Old Irish -mad, from Proto-Celtic -metos.

ficheadamh (Scottish Gaelic): twentieth

Definitions

  1. twentieth

Ancestry of “ficheadamh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishfichetmad—
2Old Irish-madth
3Proto-Celtic-metos—
Every word from Proto-Celtic -metos →Every word from Old Irish -mad →Every word from Old Irish fichetmad →