Definition/Meaning of twelfty

• English - Numeral: twelfty ( nonstandard ) One hundred twenty; 120. Related terms eleventy Translations
• English - Alternative forms: twelvety
• English - Etymology: twelve +‎ -ty From Old English hundtwelftig . Compare hundseofontig , hundeahtatig , hundnigontig and hundtēontig for modern seventy , eighty , ninety and hundred , reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system . This hund was used for counting higher decades , and eventually became the root of hundred . Hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or…