þusend
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þūsundī.
Pronunciation
Numeral
þūsend
Usage notes
- Where a modern English speaker would say "x hundred and x thousand," the Anglo-Saxons said "x hundred thousand and x thousand". 186,000 was hund þūsend and six and hundeahtatiġ þūsend, literally "a hundred thousand and eighty-six thousand".
- The ordinal form of þūsend is unknown, as no word for "thousandth" is attested until the Early Modern English period. The only likely possibility is *þūsendoþa [ˈθuːzendoθɑ], which would match modern English thousandth, as well as all lower ordinal numbers ending in "twentieth" or higher, which also use the suffix -oþa.