hundteontig

Old English

Old English numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: hund, hundred, hundtēontiġ
    Ordinal: hundtēontigoþa
    Age: hundtēontiġwintre, hundwintre, ānhundwintre
    Multiplier: hundfeald, hundtēontiġfeald

Etymology

From the prefix hund- +‎ *tēontiġ, a combination of an archaic form of tīen (ten) and -tiġ (-ty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xundˈte͜oːn.tij/, [hundˈte͜oːn.tij]

Numeral

hundtēontiġ

  1. hundred
    • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
      Ðā wæs ymb hundtēontiġ wintra ⁊ nigan ⁊ hundeahtatiġ wintra frām Drihtnes mennisċnysse, þæt Seuerus casere, sē was Æffrica cynnes, of þǣre byriġ ðe Lepti hātte,-sē was seofonteoġeða frām Agusto—þat hē rīċe onfeng, ⁊ þæt hæfde seofontȳne ġēar.
      It was about one hundred eighty-nine years after the Lord's incarnation that Emperor Severus, who was African, from the city known as Leptis—the seventeenth [emperor] from Augustus—took the throne, and held it for seventeen years.
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fætte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.
      And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, following, or fattened birds.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: hunteoniȝ, hunteniȝ