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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/na desęte

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

Etymology

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

*na desęte[1]

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

Reconstruction notes
  • 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
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: -надесѧть (-nadesętĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: -надесѧть (-nadesjatʹ)
        • Belarusian: -наццаць (-naccacʹ)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: -надцять (-nadcjatʹ)
        • Ukrainian: -надцять (-nadcjatʹ)
      • Russian: -надцать (-nadcatʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: на десѧте (na desęte)
      Glagolitic script: ⱀⰰ ⰴⰵⱄⱔⱅⰵ (na desęte)
    • Bulgarian: -на́десет (-nádeset)
    • Macedonian: -наесет (-naeset)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: -наест
      Latin script: -naest
    • Slovene: -najst
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: -náct
    • Polish: -naście
    • Slovak: -násť
    • Sorbian:
      Lower Sorbian: -nasćo
      Upper Sorbian: -naće

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