Etymograph

English

thousandfold

Thousandfold comes from Middle English thousendfold, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þūsundīfalþaz1reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150þūsendfeald1
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thousendfold1
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1851thousandfold1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English thousandfold
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1851, Herman Melville, Knights and Squires: “Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þūsundīfalþazWiktionary, English thousandfoldreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150þūsendfealdWiktionary, English thousandfold
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thousendfoldWiktionary, English thousandfold
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1851thousandfoldWiktionary, English thousandfold. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1851, Herman Melville, Knights and Squires: “Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there…”

Formed from thousand + -fold

Proto-Germanic *þūsundī

Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi

Old English þūsend

Middle English thousend ‘a thousand’

English thousand

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz

Today it means

adj Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “thousandfold”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz / thousandfold

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