Etymology

oneth

O1N1E1T1H4

Today it means: 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth Full definition →

English one ← Middle English on ← Old English ān
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  3. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*ain
  5. Old Englishān
  6. Middle Englishon
  7. Englishone
  8. English todayoneth

From one + -th (ordinal suffix).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.