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Where does “vint-i-un” come from?

vint-i-un (Catalan) comes from Catalan vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

vint-i-un (Catalan): twenty-one

Definitions

  1. twenty-one

Ancestry of “vint-i-un”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanvinttwenty
2Latinvīgintī—
3Latinquīnque—
4Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “vint-i-un”

  • vint-i-unè
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