Yearhundred
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 century (a hundred-year timespan) rare
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From year + hundred. Calque of German Jahrhundert (“century”), from Jahr (“year”) + Hundert (“hundred”). Compare 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.
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