yearhundred
yearhundred noun: century (a hundred-year timespan).
Noun
yearhundred (plural yearhundreds)
- Century (a hundred-year timespan).
- My oldest specimen is Danish, an "overgang"-stone (bearing Old-Northern as well as Scandinavian runes) from about the first half of the 9th century. The runic examples thus run down from the 9th to the 14th yearhundred.1878, Carl Säve, Some runic stones in Northern Sweden
- It may have been copied from the Northern Baldor myth, for Gothic arms and arts had been known for many centuries in the East and West in the 6th yearhundred, and Greek-writing heretics and bookmakers copied from all quarters.1883, George Stephens, Prof. S. Bugge's studies on Northern mythology shortly examined
Forms of yearhundred
| plural | yearhundreds |
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| alternative form | year-hundred |
| alternative form | year hundred |
Origin of yearhundred
From year + hundred, a calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”); from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Cf. Scots yeirhunder, Saterland Frisian Jierhunnert, German Jahrhundert, Danish århundrede, Swedish århundrade, Norwegian århundre, all meaning century and being composed of the cognates (sisterwords) of English year and hundred.
Questions about yearhundred
- What does yearhundred mean?
- Yearhundred means century (a hundred-year timespan).
- What part of speech is yearhundred?
- Yearhundred is a noun.
- What is the plural of yearhundred?
- The plural of yearhundred is yearhundreds.
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