Re: why is 11 not oneteen?
- From: Hatto von Aquitanien <abbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:19:57 -0400
sttscitrans@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hatto von Aquitanien wrote:
Rod wrote:
"Rajnish Kumar" <rajnishkumar1971@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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WHY IS ELEVEN NOT ONETEEN AND TWELVE NOT TWOTEEN?
I am guessing but maybe because a lot of things were base 12 like
pennies per shilling inches per foot etc.
You count your fingers (and thumbs) and then hold up one closed fist and
uses a word that means fist. The you hold up a second fist and say you
have two of them. It's clearer in German than in English.
The German words are "Elf" and "Zwoelf"
and the German word for "fist" is "Faust"
Then you would have to explain the "l"
Einfaust = Einf or Enf etc.
The Gothic for eleven is "ainlif" perhaps
"lif" means "fist" in Gothic.
I can't think of any dialect word for "Faust"
that would fit the bill either.
I did not say the word was cognate to fist. Try 'olf' as in 'wolf', as
in 'wolf-joint', as in wrist, as in Týr and the binding of Fenrir.
--
Nil conscire sibi
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