twenty-three

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Uncertain. First attested 17 March 1899.

From Middle English twenty-thre, twenti-thre, twenti-thrie, twenty-thrie, ultimately derived from Old English þrēo and twēntiġ (“twenty-three”, literally “three and twenty”); see also three-and-twenty. The reason for the numerical swap across the spellings for all English numbers is unknown, but it may have been influenced by the Old French system, i.e. see vint trois (literally “twenty three”). By surface analysis, twenty (“the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one”) + three (“the cardinal number 3, occurring after two and before four”).

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: drie-en-twintig — twenty-three
• Amharic: ሃያ ሶስት (haya sost) — twenty-three
• Arabic: ثَلَاثَة وَعِشْرُون (ṯalāṯa wa-ʕišrūn) — twenty-three
• Armenian: քսաներեք (kʻsanerekʻ) — twenty-three
• Azerbaijani: iyirmi üç — twenty-three
• Basque: hogeita hiru — twenty-three
• Belarusian: два́ццаць тры (dváccacʹ try) — twenty-three
• Bengali: তেইশ (teiś) — twenty-three
• Breton: tri-warn-ugent — twenty-three
• Catalan: vint-i-tres — twenty-three
• Cebuano: kawhaa`g tulo — twenty-three
• Cebuano: baynete tres — twenty-three
• Chechen: ткъе кхоъ (tqʼe qoʔ) — twenty-three
• Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪ ᏦᎢ (talisgo tsoi) — twenty-three
• Chichewa: makumi awiri n'zitatu — twenty-three
• Chinese Cantonese: 二十三 (ji6 sap6 saam1) — twenty-three
• Chinese Mandarin: 二十三 (èrshísān) — twenty-three
• Czech: dvacet tři — twenty-three
• Czech: třiadvacet — twenty-three
• Danish: treogtyve — twenty-three
• Dhivehi: ތޭވީސް (tēvīs) — twenty-three
• Dutch: drieëntwintig — twenty-three
• Esperanto: dudek tri — twenty-three
• Estonian: kakskümmend kolm — twenty-three
• Faroese: trýogtjúgu — twenty-three
• Fijian: ruasagavulu ka tolu — twenty-three
• Finnish: kaksikymmentäkolme — twenty-three
• French: vingt-trois — twenty-three
• Georgian: ოცდასამი (ocdasami) — twenty-three
• German: dreiundzwanzig — twenty-three
• Greek: είκοσι τρείς (eíkosi treís) — twenty-three
• Gujarati: ત્રેવીસ (trevīs) — twenty-three
• Haitian Creole: venntwa — twenty-three
• Hebrew: עשרים־ושלשה (esrím və-shloshá) — twenty-three
• Hindi: तेईस (teīs) — twenty-three
• Hungarian: huszonhárom — twenty-three
• Icelandic: tuttugu og þrír — twenty-three
• Indonesian: dua puluh tiga — twenty-three
• Interlingua: vinti-tres — twenty-three
• Irish: fiche a trí — twenty-three
• Italian: ventitré — twenty-three
• Japanese: 二十三 (nijūsan) — twenty-three
• Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತಮೂರು (ippattamūru) — twenty-three
• Kazakh: жиырма үш (jiyrma üş) — twenty-three
• Khmer: ម្ភៃបី (mphey bəy) — twenty-three
• Korean: 스물셋 (seumulset) — twenty-three
• Korean: 이십삼 (isipsam) — twenty-three
• Kyrgyz: жыйырма үч (jıyırma üc) — twenty-three
• Lakota: wikčémna núŋpa aké yámni — twenty-three
• Lao: ຊາວສາມ (sāo sām) — twenty-three
• Latin: vigintitres — twenty-three
• Lü: ᦌᦱᧁᦉᦱᧄ (saawṡaam) — twenty-three
• Macedonian: два́есет и три (dváeset i tri) — twenty-three
• Malay: dua puluh tiga — twenty-three
• Malay: dua puluh telu — twenty-three
• Malay: tiga likur — twenty-three
• Malay: telu likur — twenty-three
• Malayalam: ഇരുപത്തിമൂന്ന് (irupattimūnnŭ) — twenty-three
• Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᡳᠯᠠᠨ (orin ilan) — twenty-three
• Classical Nahuatl: cempōhualli omēyi — twenty-three
• Navajo: naadįįtááʼ — twenty-three
• Nheengatu: irundí-pú-musapiri — twenty-three
• Norwegian Bokmål: tjuetre — twenty-three
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tjuetre — twenty-three
• Ojibwe: niishtana-ashi-nswi — twenty-three
• Old English: þrēo and twēntiġ — twenty-three
• Pahari-Potwari: تْرَئی (traī) — twenty-three
• Pennsylvania German: drei un zwansich — twenty-three
• Polish: dwadzieścia trzy — twenty-three
• Portuguese: vinte e três — twenty-three
• Punjabi: ਤੇਈ (teī) — twenty-three
• Quechua: iskay chunka kimsayuq — twenty-three
• Romanian: douăzeci și trei — twenty-three
• Russian: два́дцать три (dvádcatʹ tri) — twenty-three
• Samoan: luasefulu tolu — twenty-three
• Sanskrit: त्रयोविंशति (trayoviṃśati) — twenty-three
• Shan: သၢဝ်းသၢမ် (sáao sǎam) — twenty-three
• Sicilian: vinti-tri — twenty-three
• Slovak: dvadsať tri — twenty-three
• Slovene: triindvajset — twenty-three
• Spanish: veintitrés — twenty-three
• Swahili: ishirini na tatu — twenty-three
• Swedish: tjugotre — twenty-three
• Tagalog: beintitres — twenty-three
• Telugu: ఇరవై మూడు (iravai mūḍu) — twenty-three
• Thai: ยี่สิบสาม (yîi-sìp-sǎam) — twenty-three
• Tok Pisin: tupela ten tri — twenty-three
• Tongan: uofulu mā tolu — twenty-three
• Turkish: yirmi üç — twenty-three
• Ukrainian: два́дцять три (dvádcjatʹ try) — twenty-three
• Urdu: تئیس (taīs) — twenty-three
• Uyghur: يىگىرمە ئۈچ (yigirme üch) — twenty-three
• Volapük: teldegkil — twenty-three
• Volapük: telsekil — twenty-three
• Welsh: tri ar hugain — twenty-three
• Welsh: tair ar hugain — twenty-three
• Welsh: dau ddeg tri — twenty-three
• Welsh: dau ddeg tair — twenty-three
• Yiddish: דרײַ און צוואַנציק (dray un tsvantsik) — twenty-three
• Yup'ik: yuinaq pingayun — twenty-three