Old English · numeral
hundteontig
- Part of speech
- numeral
- IPA
- /xundˈte͜oːn.tij/[hundˈte͜oːn.tij]
- Syllables
- xund · ˈte͜oːn · tij (3 syllables)
Meaning
hundred
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.
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Etymology
From the prefix hund- + *tēontiġ, a combination of an archaic form of tīen (“ten”) and -tiġ (“-ty”).
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