teenty
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teenty¹
adjective teentier · teentiest
- Very small; teensy.
teenty²
Where it comes from
* ten + -ty
Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.
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One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.
Similar: short hundred
Talk about this word "teenty." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/teenty. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. teenty. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/teenty "teenty." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/teenty.Cite this
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title = {teenty},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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