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Old English · adjective

nigonwintre

Part of speech
adjective
IPA
/ˈni.ɡonˌwin.tre/
[ˈni.ɣonˌwin.tre]
Syllables
ˈni · ɡon · ˌwin · tre (4 syllables)
Modern English
nine

Meaning

  1. nine year(s) old

    On þām ġewinne, ⁊ on moneġum oþrum æfter þǣm, Hannibal ġecȳþde þone nīþ ⁊ þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr, þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs, þæt hē næfre ne wurde Rōmana frēond.

    In that battle, and in many others after that, Hannibal proved the hatred and hostility that he swore before his father when he was a nine-year-old boy, that he would never become a friend of the Romans.

    late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  2. lasting nine years

Declension

All forms (9)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *newunwintruz, though in the North Sea Germanic daughter languages, the word for "nine" somehow changed to *nigun. Equivalent to nigon + -wintre.

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