Eight
/eɪt/noun
The number 8.
Did you know?Eight descends from a Proto-Indo-European number word so old that its cousins still survive in wildly different languages, from Sanskrit to Latin to English.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*oḱtṓw
“Eight”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*ahtōu
“Eight”
Old English
OE
eahta
“Eight”
Middle English
ME
eighte
“Eight”
Modern English
EN
eight
“The number 8”