þusend

== Middle English == === Numeral === þusend (Early Middle English) alternative form of thousend == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈθuː.send/, [ˈθuː.zend] === Numeral === þūsend thousand Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church ==== Usage notes ==== Where a modern English speaker would say “x hundred and y thousand,” the Anglo-Saxons said “x hundred thousand and y thousand”. For example, 186,000 was hund þūsenda and six and hundeahtatiġ þūsenda, literally “a hundred thousand and eighty-six thousand.” The ordinal form of þūsend is unknown, as no word for “thousandth” is attested until Early Modern English. The only likely possibility is *þūsendoþa [ˈθuː.zen.do.θɑ], which would match modern English thousandth, as well as all lower ordinal numbers ending in “twentieth” or higher, which also use the suffix -oþa. The gender and declension of þūsend vary widely. The word is often a feminine ō-stem (the inherited declension, since the jō-stems merged with the ō-stems, mostly by regular sound change), often a neuter a-stem, and often undeclined. When undeclined, it can be either feminine or neuter. Old English had no word for million. Instead þūsend þūsenda ("a thousand thousand") or þūsend sīðum þūsend ("a thousand times a thousand") were used. ==== Derived terms ==== þūsendfeald ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: thousendEnglish: thousand, thousan'→ Hawaiian: kaukani, tausaniEnglish: (West Yorkshire) thaasandMiddle Scots: thousandScots: thousand, thoosan, thoosand, thousant, thousande→ Scottish Gaelic: sùsan