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minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoTbf I think in English it’s more like… 9*10+7 I’m not a historian or linguist so there is a good chance I’m wrong, but I just kind of always assumed that “ninety” meant “nine-tens” - that the “ty” was an earlier form of, or was corrupted from, “tens”.
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoChecks out: from Old English nigontig, from nine + -tig “group of ten”
Tbf I think in English it’s more like… 9*10+7
I’m not a historian or linguist so there is a good chance I’m wrong, but I just kind of always assumed that “ninety” meant “nine-tens” - that the “ty” was an earlier form of, or was corrupted from, “tens”.
Checks out: