tíggju

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Faroese

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Faroese cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tíggju
    Ordinal : tíggjundi

Etymology

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From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun (ten), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (ten). Cognate with Icelandic tíu, Swedish tio, Danish ti and English ten.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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tíggju

  1. ten, cardinal number after níggju and before ellivu