The story
- Proto-Indo-European*tewh₂-?
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥?
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥tóm?
- Proto-Indo-European*tuHsont-
- Proto-Germanic*þūsundī
- Proto-West Germanic*þūsundi
- Old Englishþūsend
- Middle Englishthousend
- English todaythousand
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.