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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)
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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 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".