twelf

Borrowed from English twelve.

twelf

1. twelve

twelf

1. (Low Prussian) alternative form of twalf (“twelve (12)”)

• tuelf, twelfe
• twælf (Early Middle English); twellf (Ormulum)

Inherited from Old English twelf, from Proto-West Germanic *twalif, in turn from Proto-Germanic *twalif.

• IPA^(key): /twɛlf/

twelf (postpositive twelve)

1. twelve

• twelfte

• English: twelve
• Middle Scots: twelf, tuelf, twalf
  • Scots: twal, twel, twol

• “twelve, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• tuelf, twalf

Inherited from Early Scots twelf, from Proto-West Germanic *twalif, in turn from Proto-Germanic *twalif.

twelf

1. twelve

• Scots: twal, twel, twol

• twælf — late Kentish
• tuœlf — Northumbrian
• tuelf

From Proto-Germanic *twalif, a compound of *twa- (compare two) and *-lif.

• IPA^(key): /twelf/, [tweɫf]
• Rhymes: -elf

twelf

1. twelve
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     [Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð.

     [Wight] is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Beforan Moyse and hys folce, hē ðone Rēadan sǣ on twelf wegas ādrīġde; þæt hī, drīġan fōtan, þæne sǣ oferfērdon.

     Before Moses and His people, He dried up twelve paths in the Red Sea, so that they could cross the sea with dry feet.

• This numeral was sometimes inflected for case, but could also be indeclinable.

• twelffeald
• twelfhynde

• Middle English: twelf, tuelf, twelfe, twælf (Early Middle English), twellf (Ormulum)
  • English: twelve
  • Middle Scots: twelf, tuelf, twalf
    • Scots: twal, twel, twol