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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wídḱm̥ti

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

From earlier *dwidḱómt, with loss of initial *d- (or perhaps, as suggested by Hellenic, dissimilation to *h₁-) and compensatory lengthening, from *dwi- (“two”) +‎ *déḱm̥ (“ten”). The change from *wīdḱómt- > wīḱm̥t- was in analogy to *déḱm̥ (“ten”).

Numeral
Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *wídḱm̥ti
    Ordinal : *widḱm̥tós[1]

*wídḱm̥ti[2]

  1. twenty

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants
  • Proto-Albanian: *w(ī)džatī
  • Proto-Armenian:
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dwideśimt (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic: *wikantī (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *ewīkəti
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HwiHćati (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *wīgentī
  • Proto-Tocharian: *w'īkän

References
  1. Fortson, Benjamin W. (2004, 2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell
  2. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 418
  3. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205
  4. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 238
  5. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ikante”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 66
  6. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīgintī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 678
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