nigon and hundeahtatig

Old English

Old English numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: nigon and hundeahtatiġ
    Ordinal: nigon and hundeahtatigoþa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈni.ɡon ɑnd ˈxun.dæ͜ɑx.tɑ.tij/, [ˈni.ɣon ɑnd ˈhun.dæ͜ɑx.tɑ.tij]

Numeral

nigon and hundeahtatiġ

  1. eighty-nine
    • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
      Ðā wæs ymb hundtēontiġ wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatiġ wintra frām Drihtnes mennisċnysse, þæt Seuerus casere, sē was Æffrica cynnes, of þǣre byriġ ðe Lepti hātte,-sē was seofonteoġeða frām Agustō—þat hē rīċe onfeng, ⁊ þæt hæfde seofontȳne ġēar.
      It was about one hundred and eighty-nine years after the Lord's incarnation that Emperor Severus, who was African, from the city known as Leptis—the seventeenth [emperor] from Augustus—took the throne, and held it for seventeen years.
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