five

The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.

2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.

Describing a group or set with five elements.

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

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describing set or group with five components

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

doublet

see for numerical forms in other scripts


five

He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

Can anyone here change a five?

A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

Anything measuring five units, as length.

The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

See you at five.

Take five, soldier.

A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

(basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.

put two and two together and come up with five

that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee