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- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*newuntehun
- Old English · inherited fromniġontīene
- Middle English · inherited fromnyntene
- English todaynineteen
From Middle English nyntene, nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten. Equivalent to nine + -teen
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.