twelfty

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One hundred twenty; 120

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.

obsolete, or, nonstandard, misspelling of twelfth

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() *twelve +‎ -ty From Old English hund-twelftiᵹ. Compare hund-seofontiᵹ, hund-eahtatiᵹ, hund-niᵹontiᵹ, and hund-téontiᵹ 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 great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of Latin centum (100), and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.