Thousand
/ˈθaʊ.zənd/noun
The number 1,000.
Did you know?English thousand comes from a Germanic compound meaning “a large hundred,” because early counting systems treated 1,000 as a kind of amplified hundred, not a separate mystical unit.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dekm̥
“ten”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þūsundī
“thousand”
Old English
English
þūsend
“a thousand”
Old High German
German
dūsunt
“a thousand”
Middle English
English
thousend
“a thousand”
Modern English
English
thousand
“the number 1,000”