Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þūsundī

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Either from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti-, cf. also Proto-Slavic *tysǫti / *tysęti (“thousand”) and Lithuanian tūkstantis, or – as Kroonen suggests – from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsdḱmto-, compounded from a prefix *tuHs- (from *tewh₂-) and *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθuː.sun.diː/

Noun

cardinal number

1000	Previous:	*hundą
	Next:	n/a

*þūsundī f

1. a thousand

Inflection

ī/jō-stemDeclension of *þūsundī (ī/jō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*þūsundī	*þūsundijôz
vocative	*þūsundī	*þūsundijôz
accusative	*þūsundijǭ	*þūsundijōz
genitive	*þūsundijōz	*þūsundijǫ̂
dative	*þūsundijōi	*þūsundijōmaz
instrumental	*þūsundijō	*þūsundijōmiz

Derived terms

• Proto-West Germanic: *þūsundi
  • Old English: þūsend
    • Middle English: thusand, thousand, thousend
      • English: thousand
        • → Hawaiian: kaukani, tausani
      • Scots: thousand, thoosan, thoosand
  • Old Frisian: thūsend
    • Saterland Frisian: duusend
    • West Frisian: tûzen
  • Old Saxon: thūsund
    • Middle Low German: dûsent
      • German Low German: dusend
      • Plautdietsch: dusent
  • Old Dutch: thūsunt
    • Middle Dutch: dusent
      • Dutch: duizend
        • Afrikaans: duisend
        • Berbice Creole Dutch: dwesu
        • Negerhollands: dusend, dysent
        • → Sranan Tongo: dusun
          • → Dutch: doezoe
          • → Saramaccan: dúsu
        • → Trió: duizend
      • Limburgish: doezjend, doezjendj
  • Old High German: dūsunt, thūsunt
    • Middle High German: tūsent
      • Cimbrian: tauzing, tausankh
      • Central Franconian: dausend, duusend
      • German: tausend
      • Luxembourgish: dausend
      • Vilamovian: taojzyt, tauzyt, toüzyt
      • Yiddish: טויזנט (toyznt)
• Old Norse: þúsund
  • Icelandic: þúsund
  • Faroese: túsund
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tusund
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tusen
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: tusen
  • Old Swedish: þūsand, þūsund, þūsænd
    • Swedish: tusen
  • Danish: tusinde, tusind
    • → Greenlandic: tuusinti
    • → Inuktun: tussinti
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tusende
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌿𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (þūsundi)