Reconstruction:Proto-Hellenic/hekətón

Etymology
From with unexpected prefix, the origin of which is disputed:
 * probably by analogy with, thus a compound “one hundred”, but this does not explain the loss of ;
 * perhaps from earlier (equivalent to the zero-grade of the above), from, with a vowel change due to either dissimilation or influence from full-grade  (cf. also PIE );
 * according to Kortlandt, from with sporadic aspiration (maybe due to folk-etymological contamination by ), wholly inherited from . Per his version of glottalic theory, this reflects pre-PIE, thus providing a link to .  Compare.

Numeral

 * 1) hundred