fifta

Old English

Old English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: fīf     Ordinal: fīfta     Age: fīfwintre     Multiplier: fīffeald

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fimftô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːf.tɑ/

Numeral

fīfta

1. fifth

Adjective

fīfta

1. fifth
   • late 9th century CE [c. 731 CE], Bede, edited and translated by Thomas Miller, M.A., Ph.D., The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Early English Text Society original series 95), London: N. Trübner and Co., published 1890, Part I, page 108:

     Fēorða wæs Rǣdwold Ēastengla cyning: fīfta Ēadwine Norðanhymbra cyning, sē hæfde rīċe ofer ealle Breotone buton Contwarum ānum.

     Fourth was Rædwald, king of East Anglia; fifth was Eadwine, king of Northumbria, who reigned over all of Britain except Kent alone.

Declension

Declension of fīfta — Weak only

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fīfta	fīfte	fīfte
Accusative	fīftan	fīftan	fīfte
Genitive	fīftan	fīftan	fīftan
Dative	fīftan	fīftan	fīftan
Instrumental	fīftan	fīftan	fīftan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fīftan	fīftan	fīftan
Accusative	fīftan	fīftan	fīftan
Genitive	fīftra, fīftena	fīftra, fīftena	fīftra, fīftena
Dative	fīftum	fīftum	fīftum
Instrumental	fīftum	fīftum	fīftum

Descendants

• Middle English: fifte
  • English: fifth
  • Scots: fift, fyft

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fimftô.

Adjective

fīfta

1. fifth

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: füft

  Helgoland: füfs

  Sylt: fifst

• Saterland Frisian: fiefte, füüfte
• West Frisian: fyfte