தொள்ளாயிரம்

Tamil

**Tamil numbers ^(edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 800	௯௱ 900	1,000 → ^{[a], [b]}
	90
Cardinal: தொள்ளாயிரம் (toḷḷāyiram) Ordinal: தொள்ளாயிரமாவது (toḷḷāyiramāvatu)

Etymology

From தொள்- (toḷ-, “nine”, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *toṇ (“nine”)) +‎ ஆயிரம் (āyiram, “thousand”), contraction of தொகைதள்ளாயிரம் (tokaitaḷḷāyiram, “hundred less for thousand”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪oɭːaːjiɾam/, [t̪oɭːaːjiɾɐm]

Numeral

தொள்ளாயிரம் • (toḷḷāyiram)

nine hundred

References

Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022), “தொள்ளாயிரம்”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]