achtzane

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Cimbrian

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

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

Numeral

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achtzane (dative achtzan)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) eighteen
    zibantzane, achtzane, nòintzaneseventeen, 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

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  • “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