▪ I. † hund, n. and a. Obs.
[OE. hund n. neut. = OS. hund. OHG. hunt, Goth. (hund), pl. hunda, the original Teut. word for 100:—pre-Teut. *kmtó-m, Skr. {cced}atám Gr. (ἑ)κατόν, L. centum, OWelsh cant (mod. cynt), OIr. cét, Lith. szimtas, OSlav. sŭto, Russ. sto. In Gothic this primary form is found only in the plural twa hunda, þrija hunda, etc., which is also its ordinary use in OHG. zwei hunt. drî hunt, though ein hunt occurs late. In OE. hund was common in the sing. as well as the pl. In ME., hund appears to have become obsolete early in 13th c.]
1. = hundred (OE. and early ME.).
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. ii. iv. §4 Senatum ðæt wæs an hund monna, þeh heora æfter fyr[s]te wære þreo hund. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark. vi. 37 Mið penningum tuæm hundum [Ags. G. mid twam hundred penegon]. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xvi. 6 Hund sestra eles. Ibid. 7 Hund mittena hwætes. c 1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 298 On þrim hund daᵹum & fif & syxtiᵹum daᵹum. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 5 Ysaias..iwiteȝede ueale hund wintra er þis were. Ibid. 93 Þet weren twa hun manna. c 1205 Lay. 83 For hire weoren on ane daȝe hund þousunt deade. |
2. The element hund- was also prefixed in OE. to the numerals from 70 to 120, in OE. hund-seofontiᵹ, hund-eahtatiᵹ, hund-niᵹontiᵹ, hund-téontiᵹ, hund-endlyftiᵹ (-ælleftiᵹ), hund-twelftiᵹ, some of which are also found in early ME.
[No certain explanation can be offered of this hund-, which appears in OS. as ant-, Du. t- in tachtig, and may be compared with -hund in Goth. sibuntê-hund, etc., and Gr. -κοντα.]
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. i. x. §1, iiii hu[n]de wintrum ond hundeahtatiᵹum. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1741 Wærfæst hæle wintra hæfde twa hundteontiᵹ..and fife eac. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 92 Hund-teontiᵹ ᵹeara wæs Abraham. c 1000 in Cockayne Shrine 85 Hundteontiᵹ and twentiᵹ. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 12 Hu ne forlæt he þa niᵹon and hundniᵹontiᵹ on þam muntum? c 1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xviii. 22 Oððe seofen hundseofentiȝ siðan. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 51 On þralshipe hie wuneden two and sixti wintre, and sume hund seuenti wintre fulle. |
▪ II. hund
obs. form of hound.