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Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through twelfth grade .

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/twɛlfθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɫfθ]

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Scots

Cognate with Saterland Frisian

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with German

Cognate with Danish

Cognate with Swedish

Cognate with Icelandic

In summary

From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”), Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).