Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hundaradą

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

From *hundą (“hundred”) +‎ *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxun.dɑ.ˌrɑ.ðɑ̃/

Noun

*hundaradą n

1. (+genitive) a great hundred (120)
2. (+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)
	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
  • Middle English: hundred
    • English: hundred
      • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
    • Scots: hunder, hunner
    • Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth; hunderth, hunnert
• Old Frisian: hundred, hunderd
  • Saterland Frisian: hundert, hunderd, hunnert
  • West Frisian: hûndert
• Old Saxon: hunderod
  • Middle Low German: hundert (alternatively, from an Old High German form of hund influenced by Old Saxon)
    • Dutch Low Saxon: honderd (Achterhooks)
    • German Low German: hunnert, hunnderd
    • Plautdietsch: hundat
  • → 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
  • Middle Dutch: hondert
    • Dutch: honderd
      • Afrikaans: honderd
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: hondrutu
      • Jersey Dutch: hondert
      • Negerhollands: hondert, honderd
      • Sranan Tongo: hondro, hondru
        • Aukan: ondoo
          • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: ondoo
      • → Lokono: hundred
      • → Trió: honderd
    • Limburgish: hóngert
• Old Norse: hundrað
  • Icelandic: hundrað
  • Faroese: hundrað
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hundrad
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hundre
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hundre
  • Elfdalian: undre
  • Old Swedish: hundraþ
    • Swedish: hundra
      • → Finnish: huntti
  • Danish: hundred, hundrede (cardinal number); hundrede (noun)
    • → Greenlandic: hundredi