Faroese

Numeral

hundrað

1. hundred (100)

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʏntraːð/

Numeral

hundrað n

1. hundred (100); the cardinal number after níutíu og níu and before hundrað og einn.
   • 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.

Declension

The irregular genitive plural hundruða, hundruðanna also exists.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (hundred): eitt hundrað

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundrɑð/

Number

hundrað n

1. a long hundred (120)

Usage notes

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).

See also

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

References

• Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)