dešimt

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *deśimt, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”) with a suffix -(t)i-s marking collective number (“group of ten”). The (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European form is itself complex, including an element *ḱm̥t, possibly from *ḱomt (“hand”) (> German Hand, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch, English hand), in which case *de-ḱm̥t would mean originally “two hands”. Cognates include Latvian desmit, Old Prussian dessimpts, Old Church Slavonic десѧть (desętĭ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian де́сять (désjatʹ), Belarusian дзе́сяць (dzjésjacʹ), Bulgarian де́сет (déset), Czech deset, Polish dziesięć, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (taihun), Old Norse tiund, Old High German zëhan, German zehn, English ten, Sanskrit दश (dáśa), Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Latin decem.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

Lithuanian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dešimt
    Ordinal : dešimtas

dẽšimt m or f (not declinable)

  1. ten
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