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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/na desęte

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This Proto-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-Slavic

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Etymology

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Literally, on ten, a formation found also in Latvian -padsmit, Albanian -mbëdhjetë, Romanian -sprezece, Hungarian tizen-, Old Armenian -տասան (-tasan), dialectal Ancient Greek [Term?] and Tocharian B [Term?].

Numeral

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*na desęte[1]

  1. -teen (+10)
    *edinъ na desęteeleven (literally, “one on ten”)

Reconstruction notes

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  • Some descendants reflect a morphological variant *na desętь (literally to ten), possibly favoured to allow it to be declined like numerals like *pętь (5).[1]

Descendants

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Bernard Comrie (1992) “Balto-Slavonic”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 764