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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

-ty1 final syll. of the tens. OE. -tiġ = OS. (Du.) -tig, OHG. -zug (G.-Zig) (ON. tigr and Goth. tigus are separate words, not suffixes, e.g. tveir tigir, twai tigjus twenty); rel. to TEN.

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