لس

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Pashto[edit]

Pashto cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : لس

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Pathan *las, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *lás,[1] from Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.[2] Cognate with Persian ده (dah), Urdu دس (das).

Pronunciation[edit]

Numeral[edit]

لس • (las)

  1. ten

References[edit]

  1. ^ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus
  2. ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2010) “Indo-Iranian I: Indic”, in Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page 203

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from dialectal or colloquial form of original *لست, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lad- (“slow, weary”). Akin to Mazanderani لس (lass, “slow”).

Adjective[edit]

لس • (las)

  1. (dated) lazy
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