thrittithe
Middle English
| ← 20 | 30 | 40 → |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | ||
| Cardinal: thritty Ordinal: thrittithe | ||
Alternative forms
- threttiþe, þritteþe, þrittiþ, þrittiþe
- threttydde, þrettyde (East Anglia); þrittide (East Saxon); þrittaȝte (Kent)
- thryddyþ, thrydtythe (Southern, West Midland)
- þrituðe, þrittuðe (Early Middle English, West Midland)
- thrittyde (Northern) thretyd, threttyd (Early Scots)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English þrītigoþa, þrittigoþa; equivalent to thritty (“thirty”) + -the (ordinal suffix).
Kentish þrittaȝte is from Kentish Old English þrītiogoþa, with devoicing of /ɣ/ to /x/ after syncope followed by the common development of /xθ/ to /xt/; the vocalism represents a development /iu̯/ → /ia̯~ja/ (→ /a/). For the West Midland forms þrituðe, þrituðe, see twentithe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθritiːð(ə)/, /ˈθritið(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/
- IPA(key): /ˈθriˌtøːð(ə)/, /ˈθrityð(ə)/ (Southwest Midland)
- IPA(key): /ˈθriˌtaxt(ə)/ (Kent)
Adjective
thrittithe
Descendants
- English: thirtieth (obsolete thirteth, thirtith)
- Middle Scots: threttieth
- Scots: thrittiet
Noun
thrittithe
Descendants
- English: thirtieth (obsolete thirteth, thirtith)
- Middle Scots: threttieth
- Scots: thrittiet
References
- “thrī̆tīthe, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “threttieth, thret(t)yd, thirtieth, adj. and num.”, 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.
- Ross, Alan S. C.; Berns, Jan (1992), “Germanic”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, , →ISBN, →OCLC, page 686