thritty
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]← 20 | 30 | 40 → |
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Cardinal: thritty Ordinal: thrittithe |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English þritiġ; equivalent to thre + -ty.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]thritty
- thirty
- c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)[1], folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:
- Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […]
- "Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “thrī̆tī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.