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-ty1 final syll. of the tens. OE. -tiġ = OS. (Du.) -tig, OHG. -zug (G.-Zig) (ON. tigr and Goth. tigus are separate words, not suffixes, e.g. tveir tigir, twai tigjus twenty); rel. to TEN.
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