Where does “hundredth” come from?

Hundredth comes from Middle English -th added to Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic hundaradą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱm̥tóm meaning "hundred" with the ordinal suffix -tós.

hundredth (English): The ordinal form of the number one hundred; The...

Definitions

  1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred; The...

Ancestry of “hundredth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishhundredA hundred; 100
2Old Englishhundredhundred
3Proto-West Germanic*hundaradhundred
4Proto-Germanichundaradąa great hundred; a hundred
5Proto-Germanichundąa great hundred; a hundred
6Proto-Indo-Europeanḱm̥tómhundred
7Proto-Indo-Europeandéḱm̥ten

Words derived from “hundredth”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European déḱm̥ →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱm̥tóm →Every word from Proto-Germanic hundą →