"thritty" meaning in Middle English

See thritty in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Numeral

IPA: /ˈθritiː/, /ˈθrɛtiː/ (note: especially East Anglia, Northern, or Northwest Midland), /ˈθirtiː/ [Late-Middle-English, Northern, especially]
Etymology: From Old English þritiġ, þrittiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz; equivalent to thre + -ty. Forms with /ɛ/ are likely influenced by thre or variants of thridde or thrittene with /ɛ/; in East Anglia, they were likely reinforced by the correspondence between East Anglian /ɛ/ and other dialects' /i/ in words with Old English /y/. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|þritiġ}} Old English þritiġ, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*þrīʀ tigiwi}} Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*þrīz tigiwiz}} Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz, {{af|enm|thre|-ty}} thre + -ty Head templates: {{head|enm|numeral}} thritty Forms: thriti [alternative], thrittie [alternative], þriȝti [alternative], þritti [alternative], þritty [alternative], þrytti [alternative], þrytty [alternative], þrihti [alternative, Early-Middle-English], þritiȝ [alternative, Early-Middle-English], þrittiȝ [alternative, Ormulum], thretti [alternative], thretty [alternative], thritte [alternative], þrette [alternative], þretty [alternative], thirtee [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], thirtie [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], thirtti [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], thurtty [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], thyrty [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], þyrty [alternative, Late-Middle-English, Northern], therti [alternative], therty [alternative]
  1. thirty Related terms: thrittithe

Alternative forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "thirty"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "thretty"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "threttie"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "thratty"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "dhirtee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "þritiġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English þritiġ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*þrīʀ tigiwi"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*þrīz tigiwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "thre",
        "3": "-ty"
      },
      "expansion": "thre + -ty",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English þritiġ, þrittiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz; equivalent to thre + -ty.\nForms with /ɛ/ are likely influenced by thre or variants of thridde or thrittene with /ɛ/; in East Anglia, they were likely reinforced by the correspondence between East Anglian /ɛ/ and other dialects' /i/ in words with Old English /y/.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thriti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrittie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þriȝti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrytti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrytty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrihti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritiȝ",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrittiȝ",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ormulum"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thretti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thretty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thritte",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrette",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þretty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtee",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thurtty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thyrty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þyrty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "therti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "therty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "thritty",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English cardinal numbers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English terms suffixed with -ty",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Thirty",
          "orig": "enm:Thirty",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Three",
          "orig": "enm:Three",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              52,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "english": "\"Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:",
          "text": "Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […]",
          "translation": "\"Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thirty"
      ],
      "id": "en-thritty-enm-num-rKX7Wdtp",
      "links": [
        [
          "thirty",
          "thirty"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "thrittithe"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθritiː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθrɛtiː/",
      "note": "especially East Anglia, Northern, or Northwest Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθirtiː/",
      "tags": [
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thritty"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "thirty"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "thretty"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "threttie"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "thirty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "therty"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "tretty"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle Scots",
      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
      "word": "thratty"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "dhirtee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "þritiġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English þritiġ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*þrīʀ tigiwi"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*þrīz tigiwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "thre",
        "3": "-ty"
      },
      "expansion": "thre + -ty",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English þritiġ, þrittiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ tigiwi, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz; equivalent to thre + -ty.\nForms with /ɛ/ are likely influenced by thre or variants of thridde or thrittene with /ɛ/; in East Anglia, they were likely reinforced by the correspondence between East Anglian /ɛ/ and other dialects' /i/ in words with Old English /y/.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thriti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrittie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þriȝti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrytti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrytty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrihti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þritiȝ",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrittiȝ",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ormulum"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thretti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thretty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thritte",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þrette",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þretty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtee",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thirtti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thurtty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thyrty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "þyrty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "therti",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "therty",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "thritty",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "num",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "thrittithe"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English cardinal numbers",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English numerals",
        "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
        "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Middle English terms suffixed with -ty",
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "enm:Thirty",
        "enm:Three"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              52,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "english": "\"Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]",
          "ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:",
          "text": "Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […]",
          "translation": "\"Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thirty"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thirty",
          "thirty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθritiː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθrɛtiː/",
      "note": "especially East Anglia, Northern, or Northwest Midland"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθirtiː/",
      "tags": [
        "Late-Middle-English",
        "Northern",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thritty"
}

Download raw JSONL data for thritty meaning in Middle English (4.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.