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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʏntraːð/

Numeral

hundrað n

1. hundred (100); the cardinal number after níutíu og níu and before hundrað og einn.
   • 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.

Declension

declension of hundrað

n-s	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

The irregular genitive plural hundruða, hundruðanna also exists.

Synonyms

• (hundred): eitt hundrað

Derived terms

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)

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: undre
• Old Swedish: hundraþ
  • Swedish: hundra
    • → Finnish: huntti
• Danish: hundred
  • → Greenlandic: hundredi

See also

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

References

• Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)