Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/pénki

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Proto-Balto-Slavic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *pénki     Ordinal : *pénktas

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Numeral

*pénki

1. five

Declension

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Baltic: *penkes
  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: pīci
    • Latvian: pieci
    • Lithuanian: penkì
  • West Baltic:
    • Sudovian: pank

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “penki”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 351
• Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “penkì”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 884