desmit
Latvian
Etymology
From the noun desmits (“group of ten”), from *desimtis by metathesis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *dešimtis, 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 Lithuanian dẽšimt, 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.[1]
Pronunciation
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Cardinal : desmit Ordinal : desmitais Multiplier : desmitreiz Nominal : desmitnieks Fractional : desmitdaļa | ||
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Numeral
desmit
- ten (the cipher, the cardinal number ten)
- skaitīt līdz desmit ― to count to ten
- pieci un pieci ir desmit ― five plus five is ten
- desmit un desmit ir divdesmit ― ten plus ten is twenty
- ten (an amount equal to ten)
- desmit ābolu ― ten apples
- samaksāt desmit latu ― to pay ten lats
- nobraukt desmit kilometru ― to travel ten kilometers
- desmit gados man jāapmāca... ― in ten years I have to train, instruct...
- ten o'clock (a moment in time; ten hours after midnight, or after noon)
- pulkstenis ir desmit ― it is ten o'clock
- lekcija sākas desmitos ― the lesson begins at ten o'clock
- jāgaida līdz desmitiem ― (we) must wait until ten o'clock
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See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “desmit”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), volume I, Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, pages 210–211