-wintre

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Equivalent to. Compare the German suffix, of similar form and meaning.

Suffix

 * 1) years old
 * 2) * c. 893, King Alfred's Laws
 * "ang"

- Tīenwintre cniht mæġ bēon þīefþe ġewita.


 * 1) * late 9th century, The Old English Martyrology
 * "ang"

- Sanctus Iūstus wæs eahtawintre þā hē martyrdōm þrōwode for Criste.


 * 1) * c. 1020, Wulfstan, King Cnut's second law code
 * "ang"

- Wē willaþ þæt ǣlċ mann ofer twelfwintre selle þone āþ þæt hē nylle þēof bēon ne þēofes ġewita.


 * 1) * c. 935, King Æthelstan's sixth law code
 * "ang"

- Ne slēa man nānne ġingran mann þonne fiftīenewinterne mann, būtan hē hine werian wille oþþe flēo and on hand gān nylle.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Hannibal ġecȳðde þone nīþ and þone hete þe hē beforan his fæder ġeswōr þā hē nigonwintre cniht wæs þæt hē nǣfre ne wurde Rōmāna frēond.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Æfter þām hīe ġesetton tictātor þæt hē sċolde bēon hearra ofer þā consulas, sē wæs hāten Decius Iūnius. Hē næs būtan seofontīenewintre.


 * 1) years lasting
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Dioclētiānus and Maximiānus bebudon ēhtnesse cristenra manna—Dioclētiānus ēastane and Maximiānus westane—and for þām bebode wurdon fela martyra on tīenwintrum fierste.

Usage notes

 * Often written as a separate word in modern transcriptions, but and, with the prefix forms of "two" and "three," show that -wintre was a suffix.