Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hundaradą
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *hundą (“hundred”) + *radą (“count”).
Pronunciation
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) | |||
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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
- Old Frisian: hundred, hunderd
- West Frisian: hûndert
- Old Saxon: hunderod
- Middle Low German: hundert (alternatively, from an Old High German form of hund influenced by Old Saxon)
- → Middle High German: hundert
- Central Franconian: hondert, honnert (Moselle Franconian; parts of southern Ripuarian); hongert (traditional Ripuarian form, now chiefly western dialects), honnert
- Cimbrian: hundart
- German: Hundert
- → Lower Sorbian: hundert
- Luxembourgish: Honnert
- Pennsylvania German: hunnert
- Vilamovian: hundyt
- Yiddish: הונדערט (hundert)
- Old Dutch: *hundert, *hunderd
- Old Norse: hundrað