desmit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *déśimt. Cognates include Latvian desmit and Lithuanian dešimt.

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desmit

1. ten

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33

From the noun desmits (“group of ten”), from *desimtis by metathesis, from Proto-Baltic *dešimtis, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *déśimt with a suffix -(t)i-s marking collective number (“group of ten”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Cognates include Latgalian desmit and Lithuanian dešimt.

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desmit

1. ten (the cipher, the cardinal number ten)

   skaitīt līdz desmit ― to count to ten

   pieci un pieci ir desmit ― five plus five is ten

   desmit un desmit ir divdesmit ― ten plus ten is twenty

2. ten (an amount equal to ten)

   desmit ābolu ― ten apples

   samaksāt desmit latu ― to pay ten lats

   nobraukt desmit kilometru ― to travel ten kilometers

   desmit gados man jāapmāca... ― in ten years I have to train, instruct...

3. ten o'clock (a moment in time; ten hours after midnight, or after noon)

   pulkstenis ir desmit ― it is ten o'clock

   lekcija sākas desmitos ― the lesson begins at ten o'clock

   jāgaida līdz desmitiem ― (we) must wait until ten o'clock

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