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• endleofan — num eleven; ordinal endleofta, endleofeða, endlyfta …   Old to modern English dictionary

• eleven — e·lev·en (ĭ lĕv’ən) n. 1) The cardinal number equal to 10 + 1. 2) The 11th in a set or sequence. 3) Something with 11 parts or members, especially a football team. ╂ [Middle English elleven, from Old English endleofan; see oi no .] e·lev’en adj.… …   Word Histories

• Eleven — E*lev en ([ e]*l[e^]v n), a. [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, [ o]lwe, [ o]lwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. v[ e]nolika; and fr. the root… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• eleven — noun Etymology: Middle English enleven, from enleven, adjective, from Old English endleofan, from end (alteration of ān one) + leofan; akin to Old English lēon to lend more at one, loan Date: before 12th century 1. see number table 2. the 11th in …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• twelve — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English twelf; akin to Old High German zwelif twelve, Old English twā two, leofan (as in endleofan eleven) more at two, eleven Date: before 12th century 1. see number table 2. capitalized a. the twelve… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Asterisk — This article is about the typographical symbol. For other uses, see Asterisk (disambiguation). See also: * (disambiguation) * Asterisk …   Wikipedia

• oi-no- — One, unique. Derivatives include once, atone, union, universe, and any. I. Basic form *oi no . 1. a. a1, an1, once, one; …   Universalium

• eleven — /i lev euhn/, n. 1. a cardinal number, ten plus one. 2. a symbol for this number, as 11 or XI. 3. a set of this many persons or things, as a football team. adj. 4. amounting to eleven in number. [bef. 900; ME elleven(e), OE ellefne, endleofan; c …   Universalium

• numerals and numeral systems — ▪ mathematics Introduction       a collection of symbols used to represent small numbers, together with a system of rules for representing larger numbers.       Just as the first attempts at writing came long after the development of speech, so… …   Universalium

• eleven — [OE] Originally, eleven and twelve seem to have meant literally ‘one over’ and ‘two over’. Eleven comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *ainlif (source also of German elf and Swedish elva) in which the first element *ainaz is ‘one’ and the …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins