fourtithe

• fourtiþe, fourtythe, fourtyþe
• fowertiðe, fowertuðe (Early Middle English)
• fourtide (East Saxon); vourtaȝte (Kent); fourteoþe (Southern)
• fourtied (Northern); fourtid, fourtyid, fourtyde, fowrtyde (Early Scots)

Inherited from Old English fēowertigoþa, fēowertigeþa; equivalent to fourty (“forty”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

For the dialectal forms, see twentithe and thrittithe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔu̯rˌtiːð(ə)/, /ˈfɔu̯rtið(ə)/, /ˈfuːr-/, /-θ(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvuːrˌtøːð(ə)/, /ˈvuːrtyð(ə)/, /ˈf-/ (Southern, Southwest Midland)
• IPA^(key): /ˈvuːrˌtaxt(ə)/ (Kent)

fourtithe

1. fortieth

• English: fortieth (obsolete forteth, fortith)
• Middle Scots: *fourtied
  • Scots: fortiet

• “fourtīthe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fourtyde, fowrtyde, a.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.