- ‘four’, Gr**** τέσσαρες téssares ‘four’, Old
Irish cethair ‘four’,
Gothic fidwôr ‘four’,
Lithuanian keturì ‘four’, Old
Church Slavonic četyre ‘four’ point...
- *kʷetwóres (fem. *kʷétesres, neut. *kʷetwṓr) "four" four (< OE fēower)
fidwor "four" (In
Germanic influenced by pénkʷe "five")
quattuor "four" téssares...
- vindr;
Retention of PGmc
medial /*d/ in
CGoth fyder 'four', as in
BGoth fidwor/fidur; "Sharpening" of PGmc /*jj/ and /*ww/ to /ddj/ and /ggw/ respectively:...
- śtwar śtwer téttares, téssares
meyawes catvā́ras, catúras
quattuor *fedwōr
fidwōr cethair *četỳre čʻorkʻ *kʷetwóres five päñ piś pénte ? páñca quīnque *fimf...
- as
nouns and
govern the
genitive case of an ****ociated object, e.g. dagē
fidwōr tiguns "for
forty days", fimf þūsundjōs waírē "five
thousand men", miþ twáim...
- 'four,' is only
found in compounds; the
usual form is feówer; cf. Goth.
fidwor. In the
fourth edition,
completed in 1909,
Skeat accepted Bradley's 1897...
- *kʷetwóres (fem. *kʷétesres, neut. *kʷetwṓr) "four" four (< OE fēower)
fidwor "four" (In
Germanic influenced by pénkʷe "five")
quattuor "four" téssares...
