eleventeen

数词 num.

英文释义

数词 num.
  1. Twenty-one (21). nonce-word
    — Many giglets I have married seen / Ere they forsooth could reach eleventeen.
  2. A relatively large number, not precisely specified. colloquial
    — "He fitted about eleventeen thousand people last year."
  3. A nonsense number. colloquial
    — Hobbes: Ooh, that's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this. Calvin: Imaginary numbers?! Hobbes: You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve, all those.

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Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Germanic *lībaną
Proto-Germanic *-lif
Proto-Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalif
Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun
Old English endleofan
Middle English elleven
English eleven
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
Proto-Germanic *tehun
Proto-West Germanic *tehunder.
Anglian Old English -tēne
Middle English -tene
English -teen
English eleventeen
From eleven + -teen.
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