Etymology

cp. OIcel hundrað (normally the so-called ‘long’ hundred, i.e. ‘a hundred and twenty’) < PGmc *xunða-raðan- (< -raþan with Verner's Law); cp. OE hundred, OFris hundred, OS hundrod, hunderod, MHG hundert, hunterit. Norse derivation of late OE (Nhb) can probably be discounted on the grounds that <ð> is sometimes used for <d> in unstressed syllables in the Nhb glosses (see Pons-Sanz 2000: 109-11 and SPS 406)

PGmc Ancestor

*xunða-raðan- 

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

hundrað ' hundred (normally the so-called ‘long’ hundred, i.e. ‘a hundred and twenty’)'
(ONP hundrað (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far hundrað, Icel hundrað, Norw hundrad, ODan hundrath, Dan hundred, Sw hundra

OE Cognate

hundred 'hundred'

Phonological and morphological markers

ON fricative /&eth;/ &lt; PGmc */&eth;/

Summary category

A1*c

Attestation

ME spellings implying a final fricative are recorded occasionally, mainly but not exclusively in texts from N and E  (see further LALME dot map 454).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 743, 1144, 1543 etc.; Pe 869, 1107; Cl 315, 426, 442; WA 66, 94, 805* etc.

The native form also occurs in Pe 786 (<hondred>).

Bibliography

MED hundred (card. num.) , OED hundred (n. and adj.) , HTOED , Dance hundreth, Bj. 163, SPS 406, de Vries hundrað, Mag. hundrað, Bj-L. hundre, Orel *xunða-raðan, Kroonen *hunda- (1), AEW hundred