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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *devę(t)nòsъto, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *newin(t)śimta, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥dḱomt. Cognate with Old Novgorodian девѧносото (devęnosoto), Old Polish dziewiętnosto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛʋɛ̃ˈnoːsʊtɔ/→/dʲɛʋʲaˈnoːsʊtɔ/→/dʲɛʋʲaˈnɔːstɔ/, /dʲɛʋʲaˈnoːstɔ/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /dɛʋɛ̃ˈnoːsʊtɔ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /dʲɛʋʲaˈnoːsʊtɔ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /dʲɛʋʲaˈnɔːstɔ/, /dʲɛʋʲaˈnoːstɔ/
- Hyphenation: де‧вѧ‧но́‧съ‧то
Numeral
девѧносъто (devęnosŭto)
- ninety (90)
- Synonyms: девѧтьдесѧть (devętĭdesętĭ), ·ч҃· (90)
Descendants
Further reading
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “девѧносто”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 650
- Avanesov, R. I., editor (1989), “девѧносто”, in Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.): в 10 т. (in Russian), volume 2 (възалкати – добродѣтельникъ), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 452
- Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1977), “девяносто”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. (in Russian), issue 4 (г – дяфинъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 199