Definition/Meaning of teenty
- English - Numeral: teenty ( cardinal , nonstandard ) One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds . Krieger , Wendy , "Twelfty for Decimal-Users", URL accessed on 2008-09-15. 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 . Synonyms short…
- English - Etymology: ten + -ty Perhaps from Old English hund-téontiᵹ (compare hund-seofontiᵹ, hund-eahtatiᵹ, hund-niᵹontiᵹ, hund-endleofantiᵹ, and hund-twelftiᵹ 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.