Etymograph

English

hundred

Hundred comes from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, a compound of *hundą ‘hundred’ and *radą ‘count’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hundaradą‘hundred’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*hundarad‘hundred’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150hundred‘hundred’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hundred
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1876hundred

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hundaradą‘hundred’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*hundarad‘hundred’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150hundred‘hundred’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hundred
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1876hundred

Earliest quotation: 1876, The Crab and Lobster Fisheries of Cromer: “At Cromer and the neighbourhood the crabs are counted…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ ‘ten’

ten, dick, decade, dean, dozen, den, diner, decimal, tenfold, denier, deca, centigrade, dwt, doyen, deni, centenarian, 48 more

through Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t ‘ten’

centurion, 9 more

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

century, cent, sen, hectare, 15 more

Today it means

num A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *hundaradą / hundred

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