Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tuHsont-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Alternative reconstructions

*tuh₂sont- (based on *tewh₂-)

Etymology

Possibly 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

**Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers**
< 100	1,000
Cardinal : *tuHsont-

*tuHsont-

thousand
Synonym: *ǵʰéslom

Descendants

Proto-Balto-Slavic: *tū́ˀsantis (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *þūsundī (see there for further descendants)

References

^ 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