zero or Owe

Eleventeen

Tenty-One.

It has old Germanic roots, and is based on another number system which is based on 12. Hence also dozen. We also have 12 months.

And the old Germanic thing literally means "1 stays", and "2 stays". While the actual word was "lif" which goes well with the English word "leave", while in German nowadays it would mean "bleibt", which sounds quite different. But back to "lif": The old German words for "one" was "ein" and "two" was "zwe". So basically "einlif" for eleven, and "zwelif" for twelve. "einlif" is now "elf" in German, and "eleven" in English". It´s somehow similar. English replaces many Z with T, so "zwelif" is now "zwölf" in German, and "twelve" in English. Which is also somehow similar.

Also in German we would say the other numbers the other way around. Like it´s not "thirty-one", but instead "One and thirty". "one and ten" wouldn´t sound good, because "tens" are the only numbers in German which don´t end on "ig" Like it´s "zehn" for "ten", but e.g. "dreissig" for "thirty", which is also why there is no "and" between the two numbers for the "tens". It would be "three ten", and "four ten", basically like it is in English as well.

No. It’s Ob1011.

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Originally posted by bAd a!m:

eleven OR onety-one?

No - Oneteen. Then twoteen, thirteen, fourteen, etc.

Wrong, that would be threeteen

lol fr..
and also "Twelve" ? wtf is that!?!? short for Two-elves?

Originally posted by R-S!N:

lol fr..
and also "Twelve" ? wtf is that!?!? short for Two-elves? :taloslol:

Eleven becomes Elven and twelve becomes Twin Elves[yugipedia.com].

English -> garbage language

>> still good bcuz one man's garbage = another man's garbage

You know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?

Eleven. ELEVEN.

It's...it's not even funny.

I would like to call it, "Tenty-one"

No matter what 10 wouldn't be "one-ty". That implies that 20 is "two-ty" and 50 is "five-ty".

If it could be anything, then "firs-ty". But that also implies 20 is "second-ty". Which it isn't

so, basically, we can all agree that "eleven" is the worst choice and we have better alternatives

in most languages it is

one(and)twenty
one(and)thirty
one(and)fourty
or
twenty(and)one
thirthy(and)one

yet why than is it eleven and twelve in most languages
(dutch elf, twaalf, german elf, zwölf

we see that for some languaes it goes longer on..

dutch says der-tien veer-tien
and only starts at vijf-tien to use normal cyfer names..
though derde is dutch for one third and vier and veer are close so..

well now this originates from the fact that for a long while weights and currency were not decimal in europe.. and a dozen (12) and a gross (12x12=144) were very common numbers..

in fact if you look at very old protogerman that lays at the root of english, dutch, german.. and m,ore..

you get ainlif en twalif

ain .. can still be recognised.. it became een in dutch, ein in german, and one in englisch
twa can also be recognised.. it became twee in dutch, zwo in german and two in english

the word lif is harder.. it does not mean ten.. as that concept did not excist than.. people were using base 12 after all..
but there is a modern word derived from this base : lift.
which we know as an elevator.. but also as somebody bringing you from one place to another.
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which is the meaning of lif.. ir means something like "carried over"

this ainlif became eleven in english, elf in dutch and german and elleve in norsk
this twalif, became twaalf in dutch, tolv in norsk, zwölf in german and twelve in english..

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but if you want real confusing.. look at danish and french that still use the celtic in origin base 20.... talk about messy!

Wouldn't it be oneteen?