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”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθuː.sun.diː/

Noun

cardinal number
1000 Previous: *hundą
Next: n/a

*þūsundī f

  1. a thousand

Inflection

Declension 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

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þūshundī-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554
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