DictionaryRoot: -tig
Old English
-tig
ten or a group of ten
Forms
- -tig
- -ty — The ending shortened and its consonant changed in later English.
Origin
An inherited Germanic number ending related to the word for ten.
Note
It builds the names of tens rather than simply adding ten to another number.
7 / 9
number
sixty
Six times ten.
Etymology
The ending refers to tens. Together the components express six groups of ten, giving the number sixty.