fyuf

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Probably a misprint for *fynf, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Numeral

fyuf

  1. five
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor, page 389:
      Jussus ita numerabat. Ita, tua, tria, fyder, fyuf, seis, sevene, prorsus, ut nos Flandri.
      When I asked him to count, he did so as follows: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, just as we Flemings do.
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