hundrað

From Old Norse hundrað, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhʊndra]

hundrað

1. hundred (100)

• stórhundrað (“120”)

From Old Norse hundrað, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʏntraːð/

hundrað n (genitive singular hundraðs, nominative plural hundruð) or
(proscribed) hundruðir f pl (plural only, genitive plural (proscribed) hundruða)

1. hundred

   Synonym: eitt hundrað

   • 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.

• The plural feminine declension, used as a noun ("hundreds"), is proscribed, unlike with þúsund.

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “hundrað”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “hundrað” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”). Cognate to English hundred (“short hundred, 100”).

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈhũndrɑð/

hundrað n

1. a long hundred (120)

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).

• Icelandic: hundrað
• Faroese: hundrað
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hundrad
• Norwegian Bokmål: hundre
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hundre
• Elfdalian: undrað
• Old Swedish: hundraþ
  • Swedish: hundra
    • → Finnish: huntti
• Old Danish: hundrath
  • Danish: hundred, hundrede (cardinal number), hundrede (noun)
    • → Greenlandic: hundredi

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

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “hundrað”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press