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#1319. ¿ɽ魯 sixty [numeral][sir_orfeo]

Sir Orfeo κǽˡӸڤβ뿲򤷤Ƶζä Eurydice Ϣ᤹ˡ¿ο͡ĤƤ̤롥ǡ¿ɽ魯Τ sexti ȤѤƤ롥Bliss ǡAuchinleck MS (ll. 89--90) ꡥ

Kniȝtes vrn & leuedis also,
Damisels sexti & mo.


б Harley 3810 ιԤ "Knyȝtys out went & ladyes also, / & damsellis fyfty & mony mo;" (ll. 86--87) Ashmole 61 ιԤ "Sexty knyȝtys & ȝit mo, / And also fele ladys þer-to," (ll. 77--78) Ȥꡤ6050ɤƤ롥β桹ˤȤä50ϥ꤬褤60ȤΤȾüε̣롥"and more" դ­Ƥ뤫ˤϡ̩ʿǤϤʤ¿ɽ魯ɽǤ򤷤Ƥ褤60ȤϰΤɤФƤΤ
ѸλǤϤμŬʳϤ褯褦˻פΤǡۤܤƤʤä礦ɤβս "sixty" ˤĤơȤΤɤǤߤTucker ˤȡѸˤ¿ɽ魯 "sixty" ˡ "plenty of evidence" (152) ȤTucker (153) ϡHavelok, Sir Ferumbras, Otuel and Roland "sixty" ӤܿŦʤ顤Τ褦˿¬롥

'Fifty'---or 'half a hundred' would seem more natural to the modern reader: are these prevailing 'sixties' a relic of the old duodecimal reckoning familiar in the Scandinavian 'Long Hundred' of 120?


MED ˤä˴Ϣ뵭ҤϤʤäOED Ǥ sixty, adj. and n ιǡB. n. 1b ȤƼζ礬ϿƤ롥1848ǯǤ롥

b. like sixty, with great force or vigour; at a great rate. colloq. or slang. (Cf. FORTY adj. b.)


˻ȤΤ forty ι򸫤ȡ"Used indefinitely to express a large number. like forty (U.S. colloq.): with immense force or vigour, 'like anything'. ȤꡤShakespeare ȤʤäƤ롥
ѸΡ¿פ "sixty" ȶḽ like sixty Ϣ³뤫ɤϵ路źοΤĴްդȤΤ͡Ǥꡤ̣Ϣơ#84. once, twice, thrice ([2009-07-20-1]) thrice- ʣ򻲾ȡ

Bliss, A. J., ed. Sir Orfeo. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1966.
Tucker, Susie I. "'Sixty' as an Indefinite Number in Middle English." The Review of English Studies 25 (1949): 152--53.

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