Where does “diez” come from?

diez (Asturian) comes from Old Leonese diez, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

diez (Asturian): ten

Definitions

  1. ten

Ancestry of “diez”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Leonesediez—
2Latindecemten; 10
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “diez”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →