English
nineteen
Nineteen comes from Middle English nyntene, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *newuntehun.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*newuntehunreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150niġontīene
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500nyntene
- Englishearliest quotation 1997nineteen
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*newuntehunreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150niġontīene
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500nyntene
- Englishearliest quotation 1997nineteen
Earliest quotation: 1997, Swan Dive, Groovy Tuesday: “She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.”
Formed from nine + -teen
Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ ‘nine’
Proto-Germanic *newun ‘nine’
Proto-West Germanic *neun
Old English nigon ‘nine’
Middle English nyn
English nine
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun
Today it means
num The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *newuntehun / nineteen