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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hundaradą
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *hundą (“hundred”) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxun.dɑ.ˌrɑ.ðɑ̃/
Noun
*hundaradą n
- (+genitive) a great hundred (120)
- (+genitive) a hundred (100)
Usage notes
The words *hundą and *hundaradą may have originally lacked a specific definition and been used as general words for any fairly large number. This usage continued in many daughter languages, but eventually its value was fixed at 100, as was its Latin cognate, centum.
Inflection
| neuter a-stemDeclension of *hundaradą (neuter a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *hundaradą | *hundaradō | |
| vocative | *hundaradą | *hundaradō | |
| accusative | *hundaradą | *hundaradō | |
| genitive | *hundaradas, *hundaradis | *hundaradǫ̂ | |
| dative | *hundaradai | *hundaradamaz | |
| instrumental | *hundaradō | *hundaradamiz | |
Descendants
- Old English: hundred
- Middle English: hundred
- English: hundred
- → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
- Scots: hunder, hunner
- Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hunderth, hundereth, hunnert
- English: hundred
- Middle English: hundred
- Old Frisian: hundred, hunderd
- Saterland Frisian: hundert, hunderd, hunnert
- West Frisian: hûndert
- Old Saxon: hunderod
- Middle Low German: hundert (alternatively, from an Old High German form of hund influenced by Old Saxon)
- Dutch Low Saxon: honderd (Achterhooks)
- German Low German: hunnert, hunnderd
- Plautdietsch: hundat
- → Middle High German: hundert
- Central Franconian: hondert, honnert; hongert, honnert
- Cimbrian: hundart
- German: Hundert
- → Lower Sorbian: hundert
- Luxembourgish: Honnert
- Pennsylvania German: hunnert
- Vilamovian: hundyt
- Yiddish: הונדערט (hundert)
- Middle Low German: hundert (alternatively, from an Old High German form of hund influenced by Old Saxon)
- Old Dutch: *hundert, *hunderd
- Middle Dutch: hondert
- Dutch: honderd
- Afrikaans: honderd
- Limburgish: hóngert
- Dutch: honderd
- Middle Dutch: hondert
- Old Norse: hundrað
- Icelandic: hundrað
- Faroese: hundrað
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hundrad
- Norwegian Bokmål: hundre
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: hundre
- Elfdalian: undre
- Old Swedish: hundraþ
- Swedish: hundra
- → Finnish: huntti
- Swedish: hundra
- Danish: hundred
- → Greenlandic: hundredi
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*radō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401