hundrað

See also: hundrad and hundraþ

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhʊndra]

Numeral

hundrað

1. hundred (100)

Derived terms

• stórhundrað (“120”)

Icelandic

Icelandic numbers ^(edit)

		1,000[a], [b]
←  90	←  99	100	101  →	200  →
		10
Cardinal: hundrað, eitt hundrað     Ordinal: hundraðasti     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.     Multiplier: hunraðfaldur

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʏntraːð/

Numeral

hundrað n (genitive singular hundraðs, nominative plural hundruð) or
(proscribed) hundruðir f pl (plural only, genitive plural (proscribed) hundruða)

1. hundred

   Synonym: eitt hundrað

   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Usage notes

• The plural feminine declension, used as a noun ("hundreds"), is proscribed, unlike with þúsund.

Declension

Declension of hundrað (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hundrað	hundraðið	hundruð	hundruðin
accusative	hundrað	hundraðið	hundruð	hundruðin
dative	hundraði	hundraðinu	hundruðum	hundruðunum
genitive	hundraðs	hundraðsins	hundraða	hundraðanna

Declension of hundruðir (pl-only feminine)

	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	hundruðir1	hundruðirnar1
accusative	hundruðir1	hundruðirnar1
dative	hundruðum1	hundruðunum1
genitive	hundruða1	hundruðanna1

¹Proscribed.

Derived terms

• átta hundruð (“800”)
• eitt hundrað (“100”)
• fimm hundruð (“500”)
• fjögur hundruð (“400”)
• hundraðasti
• hundraðfalt
• hundraðshluti
• níu hundruð (“900”)
• sex hundruð (“600”)
• sjö hundruð (“700”)
• tvö hundruð (“200”)
• þrjú hundruð (“300”)

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “hundrað”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019), Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “hundrað” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Old Norse

FWOTD – 5 February 2013

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Cognate to English hundred (“short hundred, 100”).

Pronunciation

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈhũndrɑð/

Number

hundrað n

1. a long hundred (120)

Usage notes

Christianity introduced the short hundred (100), but the long hundred remained in use for a long time even after that, during which time hundreds were sometimes distinguished as heil (“whole”) or tólfræð (“twelve-tenned, duodecimal”) (for 120) or tíræð (“ten-tenned, decimal”) (for 100).

Descendants

• Icelandic: hundrað
• Faroese: hundrað
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hundrad
• Norwegian Bokmål: hundre
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hundre
• Elfdalian: undrað
• Old Swedish: hundraþ
  • Swedish: hundra
    • → Finnish: huntti
• Old Danish: hundrath
  • Danish: hundred, hundrede (cardinal number), hundrede (noun)
    • → Greenlandic: hundredi

See also

• tíu-tíu (teenty, one short hundred, 100)

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “hundrað”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press