thousand

• n. 千の; 多数の; 多数の
• adj.

古英語のthusend、千から、原ゲルマン語の *thusundi、千、頭文字 *thu、おそらくPIE *teue、膨らみ、語源的には太もも、親指と同じ、-sundi、原ゲルマン語の *hundam、百、語源的には百と同じ。この語は文字通り数百を意味し、ラテン語のmille（千、語源的には百万）の訳語として次第に固定数として定着した。

thousand

thousand: [OE] Thousand is a compound noun of some antiquity, which seems to mean etymologically ‘several hundreds’. Its first element probably comes from a base denoting ‘increase’ or ‘multiplicity’, which also produced Latin tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour) and Sanskrit tuvi ‘much’; its second element is the same as the first element of English hundred. The combination resulted in a prehistoric Germanic *thusundi, which evolved into German tausend, Dutch duizend, Swedish tusen, Danish tusind, and English thousand. It is shared by the Slavic languages – Russian, for instance, has tysjacha.
=> hundred, thigh, thumb, tumour

thousand (adj.)

Old English tusend, from Proto-Germanic *thusundi (cognates: Old Frisian thusend, Dutch duizend, Old High German dusunt, German tausend, Old Norse tusund, Gothic tusundi).

Related to words in Balto-Slavic (Lithuanian tukstantis, Old Church Slavonic tysashta, Polish tysi?c, Russian tysiacha, Czech tisic), and probably ultimately a compound with indefinite meaning "great multitude, several hundred," literally "swollen-hundred," with first element from PIE root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh).

Used to translate Greek khilias, Latin mille, hence the refinement into the precise modern meaning. There was no general Indo-European word for "thousand." Slang shortening thou first recorded 1867. Thousand island dressing (1916) presumably is named for the region of New York on the St. Lawrence River.

1. English has hurt me a thousand times，but I still regard it as my first love.

英語は私を何百回も傷つけて、私は初恋のように英語を待っています。

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2.A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.

1000人のサポーターが体育館に割り込んで応援した。

3.The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.

その重さ1000ポンドの爆弾は1本の導線によって引き起こされた。

4. "How much is he paying you?"-"Oh，five thousand ."-"Not bad."

「彼はあなたにいくらあげますか？」-「おお、5000。」-「いいですね。」

5.The cost of repairing earthquake damage could be more than seven- thousand -million dollars.地震による損失を補うには70億ドル以上が必要です。