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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/devętь
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
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Cardinal: *devętь Ordinal: *devętъ Collective: *devętero Fractional: *devętina |
Declension
Declension of *devętь (consonant stem)
Case | Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | *devętь | — | — |
Accusative | *devętь | — | — |
Genitive | *devęte | — | — |
Locative | *devęte | — | — |
Dative | *devęti | — | — |
Instrumental | *devętьjǫ | — | — |
Vocative | — | — | — |
Derived terms
- *devęsilъ (“an Asteraceae medicinal plant”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
References
- 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’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “devętь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c nine (PR 138)”
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