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.
雙語例句
1. English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
英語傷我千百遍，我待英語如初戀。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
2. A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.
1,000名支持者擠進體育館里為他們加油。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.
那顆重達1,000磅的炸彈是由一根導線引爆的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. "How much is he paying you?" — "Oh, five thousand." —"Not bad."
“他給你多少錢？”——“哦，5,000。”——“挺不錯嘛。”
來自柯林斯例句
5. The cost of repairing earthquake damage could be more than seven-thousand-million dollars.