thunetua

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From thiine (“ten”) + tua (“two”). The first -u- is likely a misprint for intended *thiinetua. Compare thiine (“ten”), thiinita (“eleven”), and on the other hand thunetria (“thirteen”). All four words are expected to have had the same vowel, probably [iː].

Numeral

thunetua

  1. twelve
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor, page 389:
      Prōsequēbātur dēlūde Athe, nyne, thiine, thiinita, thunetua, thunetria etc.
      He then went on: Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen etc.
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