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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/devętь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

Ultimately 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

Proto-Slavic numbers (edit)
90
   8 9 10   
    Cardinal: *devętь
    Ordinal: *devętъ
    Collective: *devętero
    Fractional: *devętina

*dȅvętь f [1][2]

  1. nine

Declension

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Descendants

References

  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, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c nine (PR 138)”
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