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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
*dȅvętь f[1][2]
- nine
Declension
Declension of *devętь (consonant stem)
Case
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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*devętь
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Accusative
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*devętь
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Genitive
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*devęte
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Locative
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*devęte
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Dative
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*devęti
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Instrumental
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*devętьjǫ
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Vocative
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Derived terms
Descendants
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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)”