tuttugu

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tuttugu, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz.

Numeral

tuttugu

twenty; the cardinal number after nítján and before tuttugu og einn.

Synonyms

(twenty): tvítján

Related terms

(ordinal form): tuttugasti m, tuttugasta f, n.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English twentig, Old High German zweinzug.

Numeral

tuttugu

twenty

Descendants

Danish: tyve
Faroese: tjúgu
Icelandic: tuttugu

Norwegian: tjue (Bokmål), tjue (Nynorsk)
Swedish: tjugo

References

tuttugu in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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