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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/devętь

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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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    From Proto-Balto-Slavic *néwin, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Compare Latvian deviņi, Lithuanian devyni, from Eastern Baltic *dewin, ultimately of the same Indo-European root. The initial 'd' in Eastern Baltic and Slavic has sometimes been explained as dissimilation, or by alliteration to *desętь (ten) (compare a similar alliteration that may have occurred in Proto-Germanic between *fedwōr (four) and *fimf (five)).

    Noun

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    Proto-Slavic numbers (edit)
    90
     ←  8 9 10  → 
        Cardinal: *devętь
        Ordinal: *devętъ
        Adverbial: *devętь kortь
        Multiplier: *devętьnъ, *devętь kortьnъ
        Collective: *devętero
        Fractional: *devętina

    *dȅvętь f[1][2]

    1. nine

    Declension

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    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    References

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    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dȅvętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 101:num. i (c) ‘nine’
    2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “devętь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:f. c nine (PR 138)