Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tuHsont-
Proto-Indo-European
editAlternative reconstructions
edit- *tuh₂sont- (based on *tewh₂-)
Etymology
editPossibly from *tewh₂- (“to swell”).[1] According to Kroonen, the root should be reconstructed as *tuh₂sdḱmto-, compounded from a prefix *tuh₂s- (from *tewh₂-) and *déḱm̥t (“ten”) or *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”).[2]
Numeral
edit< 100 | 1,000 | |
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Cardinal : *tuHsont- | ||
*tuHsont-
Descendants
edit- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *tū́ˀsantis (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *þūsundī (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 459-60; 473-4
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þūshundī-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554