• @SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    Not really, but they’re essentially the same as the German “elf” and “zwölf”, so we probably got them from the same place as them ;)

    • @vidarh@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Wiktionary suggests the common proto-Germanic root of eleven/twelve, elf/zwölf are likely to have been “ainalif” and “twalif” - “one left over” and “two left over”.