ten: added to modified forms of the numbers 3 to 9 to form the numbers 13 to 19
Derived Forms
-teenth combining form in adjective
Origin
Old English -tēne, -tӯne
-teen
Word Origin
1
a suffix used to form cardinal numerals from 13 to 19.
Origin
Middle English,Old English-tēne, combining form of ten; cognate with Dutch-tien, German-zehn
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-teena termination forming the cardinal numerals from 13 to 19.
[Middle English and Old English -tēne, combining form of ten]
-teen
/tiːn/
suffix
forming the names of numerals from 13 to 19
表示“十”（基数词13-19的后缀）：
fourteen
eighteen.
词源
Old English, inflected form of TEN.
-teen combining element.|tiːn|[OE.*-tíene, -týne, -téne, ME.-tēne=OFris.-téna, -tíne, OS.-tein (-tian), LG.-tein, Du.-tien, OHG.-zehan (-zeheni), Ger.-zehn.]An inflected form of ten, added to the simple numerals from three to nine, to form the names of those from thirteen to nineteen.Hence -teenth|-tiːnθ|, forming ordinal numerals from the cardinals in -teen, from thirteenth to nineteenth. In ME. this took the place of earlier -teþe, OE.téoþe: cf. tenth and -th1.In early OE., as in the cognate langs., the simple numerals, from four upwards, had an inflected and an uninflected form, the latter commonly used before a n., seofon daᵹas, the former in other positions, e.g.swa ealle seofone. The inflected forms were ns. of the -i declension, with nominative pl. in -e (neut. -u, -o). Subsequently these forms were levelled, the numerals up to twelve retaining the uninflected form, those from thirteen to nineteen the inflected, as teon, ten, fiftēne, fifteen. In ME. the final -e of -tēne, -teene became mute; in mod.Eng.-teen it is no longer written, but the stem vowel remains long.These compounds had originally the stress on the first element |ˈθɜːtiːn|, as in ˈdreizehn, ˈtredecim, ˈtredici, δώδεκα, etc. In modern Eng. this is retained in counting: ‘twelve, ˈthirteen, ˈfourteen, ˈfifteen’, etc., also before hundred, as ‘ˈeighteen ˈhundred and ˈninety’; but before a n. there is a secondary stress on -teen, as ‘ˈeighˌteen ˈmen’. Otherwise the two elements have usually equal stress, ˈthirˈteen, ˈsevenˈteen, ˈeighˈteen, which in the pause may become ˌ—ˈ (not —ˈ), as ‘at the age of ˌthirˈteen’, ‘sweet ˌsevenˈteen’. This stressing may have arisen to distinguish them clearly from the numerals in -ty: ‘not ˌsevenˈteen but ˈseventy’; ‘the ˈforty days have been reduced to ˌfourˈteen’. The stressing of the ordinals in -teenth follows the same lines.
-teen
word-forming element making cardinal numbers from 13 to 19, meaning "ten more than," from Old English -tene, -tiene, from Proto-Germanic *tekhuniz (cognates: Old Saxon -tein, Dutch -tien, Old High German -zehan, German -zehn, Gothic -taihun), an inflected form of the root of ten; cognate with Latin -decim (source of Italian -dici, Spanish -ce, French -ze).
-teen/ti:n/suffix. OE.
ORIGIN:Old English-tēne, -tȳne = Old Frisian-ten(e, -tīne, Old Saxon-tein, Old High German-zehan, Gothic-taihun (Dutch-tien, German-zehn).
An inflected form of ten, added to the simple numerals from three to nine, to form the names of those from thirteen to nineteen.
☞ teen
-teen
Suffix
Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.
Etymology
From Old English-tēne, from Proto-Germanic-tehun ("ten").