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

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, hundrede (cardinal number), hundrede (noun)
  • → Greenlandic: hundredi

See also

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

References

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