Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wídḱm̥ti
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Proto-Indo-European
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *dwidḱómt, with loss of initial *d- (or perhaps, as suggested by Hellenic, dissimilation to *h₁-) and compensatory lengthening, from *dwi- (“two”) + *déḱm̥ (“ten”). The change from *wīdḱómt- > wīḱm̥t- was in analogy to *déḱm̥ (“ten”).
Numeral
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Cardinal : *wídḱm̥ti Ordinal : *widḱm̥tós[1] | ||
*wídḱm̥ti[2]
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Albanian: *w(ī)džatī
- Albanian: -zet
- Proto-Armenian:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dwideśimt (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *wikantī (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *ewīkəti
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HwiHćati (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *wīgentī
- Proto-Tocharian: *w'īkän
References
[edit]- ^ Fortson, Benjamin W. (2004, 2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 418
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 238
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ikante”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 66
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīgintī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 678
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