THOUSAND

One group of this word was formed in the area of the Corded Ware Culture: Germanic, Finnic, Slavic and Baltic. The other one is composed of Italic, Greek and Indo-Iranian languages.

Thous AN d ---> Tysi AN c ---> Tysi ON c ---> Tukst AN t ---> Tys Ę šti ---> Dus EN d ---> Thus UN d

The presence of a nasal sound in this word is pretty obvious, most probably the initial nasal sound was Ą preserved in Finnish "tuhat", Swedish "þūsand", Lithuanian "tūkstantis", Old Polish "tysiąc". The final sound is always D = T = C = TS.

Corded Ware Culture Group

TUKS-

Lithuanian: tūkstantis

Latvian: tūkstotis

TUS-

---> Greenlandic: tuusinti

Danish: tusinde, tusind

Gothic: 𐌸𐌿𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (þusundi)

Old Norse: þúsund

Icelandic: þúsund

Faroese: túsund

Old High German: thūsunt

Old Saxon: thūsund

Old Dutch: thūsunt

Norwegian: tusen

Swedish: tusen

Old Frisian: thūsend

Old English: þūsend

Mercian: þūsend

Middle English: thusend, thusand, thousend

Middle High German: tūsent

West Frisian: tûzen

Old Swedish: þūsand, þūsund, þūsænd

TYS-

Old Church Slavonic: тꙑсѫщи ⱅⱏⰹⱄⱘⱋⰻ (tysǫšti), тꙑсѧщи ⱅⱏⰹⱄⱔⱋⰻ (tysęšti)

Old East Slavic: тысяча (tysjača)

Russian Church Slavonic: тысѫща (tysǫšta), тысѧща (tysęšta)

Belarusian: ты́сяча (týsjača)

Russian: ты́сяча (týsjača)

Ukrainian: ти́сяча (týsjača)

Polish: tysiąc

Upper Sorbian: tysac

TUH-

---> Estonian: tuhat

---> Finnish: tuhat

---> Ingrian: tuhatta

---> Karelian: tuhat

---> Livvi: tuhat

---> Veps: tuha

---> Võro: tuhat

---> Votic: tuhad

TIS-

Rusyn: ті́сяч (tísjač)

Slovene: tȋsoč

Old Czech: tisíc

Czech: tisíc

Slovak: tisíc

Serbo-Croatian: тѝсућа, tìsuća

TAUS-

German: tausend

English: thousand

Scots: thowsand, thousand

Cimbrian: tauzing, tausankh

DAUS-

Central Franconian: dausend

Luxembourgish: dausend

DUS-

Middle Low German: dûsent

German Low German: dusend

Plautdietsch: dusent

Middle Dutch: dusent

Dutch: duizend

Afrikaans: duisend

Saterland Frisian: duusend

Central Franconian: duusend

Old High German: dūsunt

DOES-

Limburgish: doezjend, doezjendj

TUON-

---> Livonian: tūontõ

Italic and Indo-Iranian Group

SAS-

---> Halegannada: ಸಾಸಿರ (sāsira)

Kashmiri: sās

SAHA-

---> Nepali: सहस्र (sahasra)

Sanskrit: सहस्र (sahásra)

Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀳𑀲𑁆𑀲 (sahassa)

Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀰𑀳𑀰𑁆𑀰 (śahaśśa)

Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀳𑀲𑁆𑀲 (sahassa)

Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀳𑀲𑁆𑀲 (sahassa)

Punjabi: ਸਹੰਸ (sahans)

Pali: sahassa

Gujarati: સહસ્ત્ર (sahastra)

Hindi: सहस्र (sahasra)

Punjabi: ਸਹੰਸਰ (sahansar)

SOHO-

Bengali: সহস্র (sôhôsr)

HAZA-

Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀‎ (hazaŋra)

Manichaean Persian: hzʾr

Pahlavi: hcʾl‎ (hazār)

Tajik: ҳазор (hazor)

Hindi: हज़ार (hazār)

Baluchi: ہزار‎ (hazár)

Kurdish: ھەزار‎ (hazār)

Old Armenian: հազար (hazar)

Armenian: հազար (hazar)

HEZ-

Persian: هزار‎ (hezâr)

ZER-

---> Hungarian: ezer

Pashto: زر‎ (zër)

ERZ-

Ossetian: ӕрзӕ (ærzæ)

KHIL-

Ancient Greek: χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi), χιλιάς (khiliás)

KHEL-

Doric Greek: χέλιοι (khélioi)

Ionic Greek: χείλιοι (kheílioi)

Lesbian Greek: χέλλιοι (khéllioi)

HIL-

Greek: χίλια (chília), χιλιάδα (chiliáda)

Bulgarian: хиляда (hiljada)

Serbo-Croatian: хиљада (hiljada)

Macedonian: илјада (iljada)

MIL-

---> Basque: mila

Latin: mīlle

Friulian: mil

Italian: mille

Italian: milione

Aragonese: mil

Old French: mile, mil

Middle French: mille, mil, mile

French: mille

Norman: mille

Asturian: mil

Mirandese: mil

Catalan: mil

Occitan: mila, mil

Old Portuguese: mil

Galician: mil

Portuguese: mil

Old Spanish: mil, mill,

Spanish: mil

Romanian: mie

Romansch: milli

Sardinian: mila, milli

Sicilian: milli, middi

Middle Irish: míle

Irish: míle

Manx: milley

Scottish Gaelic: mìle

MEL-

Dalmatian: mel

MIJ-

Albanian: mijë

NIL-

Aromanian: njilje

SAVIR-

---> Kannada: ಸಾವಿರ (sāvira)

AIR-

---> Tamil: ஆயிரம் (āyiram)

---> Malayalam: ആയിരം (āyiraṃ)

Article created on the 13th of September 2019.