Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/na desęte

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

Etymology

    Literally, “on ten”, a formation found also in Latvian -padsmit, Albanian -mbëdhjetë, Romanian -sprezece, Hungarian tizen-, Old Armenian -տասան (-tasan), dialectal Ancient Greek [Term?] and Tocharian B [Term?].

    Numeral

    *na desęte[1]

    1. -teen (+10)
      ‎*edinъ (“one”) + ‎*na desęte → ‎*edinъ na desęte (“eleven”)

    Reconstruction notes

    • Some descendants reflect a morphological variant *na desętь (literally “to ten”), possibly favoured to allow it to be declined like numerals like *pętь (“5”).[1]

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: -надесѧть (-nadesętĭ)
        • Old Ruthenian: -надесѧть (-nadesjatʹ)
          • Belarusian: -наццаць (-naccacʹ)
          • Carpathian Rusyn: -надцять (-nadcjatʹ)
          • Ukrainian: -надцять (-nadcjatʹ)
        • Russian: -надцать (-nadcatʹ)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Old Cyrillic script: на десѧте (na desęte)
        Glagolitic script: ⱀⰰ ⰴⰵⱄⱔⱅⰵ (na desęte)
      • Bulgarian: -на́десет (-nádeset)
      • Macedonian: -наесет (-naeset)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: -наест
        Latin script: -naest
      • Slovene: -najst
    • West Slavic:
      • Czech: -náct
      • Polish: -naście
      • Slovak: -násť
      • Sorbian:
        Lower Sorbian: -nasćo
        Upper Sorbian: -naće

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bernard Comrie (1992) “Balto-Slavonic”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 764
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