Old English · numeral
feower and feowertig
- Part of speech
- numeral
- IPA
- /ˈfe͜oː.wer ɑnd ˈfe͜oː.wer.tij/[ˈfe͜oː.wer ɑnd ˈfe͜oː.werˠ.tij]
- Syllables
- ˈfe͜oː · wer · ɑnd · ˈfe͜oː · wer · tij (6 syllables)
- Modern English
- forty-four
Meaning
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forty-four
...ymb fēower ⁊ fēowertiġ wintra Ongolcynnes cȳmes in Breotone
...about forty-four years after the arrival of the Angles in Britain.
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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