English
thousandfold
Thousandfold comes from Middle English thousendfold, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þūsundīfalþazreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150þūsendfeald
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thousendfold
- Englishearliest quotation 1851thousandfold
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þūsundīfalþazreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150þūsendfeald
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thousendfold
- Englishearliest quotation 1851thousandfold
Earliest quotation: 1851, Herman Melville, Knights and Squires: “Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there…”
Formed from thousand + -fold
Proto-Germanic *þūsundī
Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi
Old English þūsend
Middle English thousend ‘a thousand’
English thousand
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz
Today it means
adj Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz / thousandfold