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.

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

*na desęte^[1]

1. -teen (+10)

   *edinъ na desęte ― eleven (literally, “one on ten”)

• 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]

• 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