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Romanian
Etymology
Univerbation of spre + zece, literally “to ten”. The formation is otherwise unknown to the Romance languages, and was influenced by neighbouring languages, such as Albanian -mbëdhjetë and Old Church Slavonic на десѧте (na desęte).
Suffix
-sprezece
- -teen (+10)
- un (“one”) + -sprezece → unsprezece (“eleven”)
- cinci (“five”) + -sprezece → cincisprezece (“fifteen”)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Glanville Price (1992) “Romance”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 460