achtzane

Cimbrian
Cimbrian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : achtzane
    Ordinal : achtzante
    Attributive : achtzan
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Etymology

From Middle High German ahzehen, from Old High German ahtozehan, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with German achtzehn, English eighteen.

Numeral

achtzane (dative achtzan)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) eighteen
    zibantzane, achtzane, nòintzane ― seventeen, eighteen, nineteen
    Achtzane ist de sait benne puuben und diarn bissent das mòant puulan.
    Eighteen is the age at which young men and women know what love means.

References
  • “achtzane” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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