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12 (twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13.
The word "twelve" is a native English word that presumably arises from the Germanic compound twa-lif "two-leave", meaning that two is left before one takes away the base, ten. This compound meaning may have been transparent to speakers of Old English, but the modern form "twelve" is quite translucent. Only the remaining tw- hints that twelve and two are related. Etymology (Weekley, Skeat) suggests that "twelve" (similar to "eleven...
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