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Old English
Etymology
From the prefix hund- + *tēontiġ, a combination of an archaic form of tīen (“ten”) and -tiġ (“-ty”).
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hundtēontiġ
- hundred
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Ðā wæs ymb hundtēontiġ wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatiġ wintra frām Drihtnes mennisċnysse, þæt Seuerus casere, sē was Æffrica cynnes, of þǣre byriġ ðe Lepti hātte,-sē was seofonteoġeða frām Agusto—þat hē rīċe onfeng, ⁊ þæt hæfde seofontȳne ġēar. - It was about one hundred eighty-nine years after the Lord's incarnation that Emperor Severus, who was African, from the city known as Leptis—the seventeenth from Augustus—took the throne, and held it for seventeen years.
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