Where does “deka” come from?

deka (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto -a, from Italian -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

deka (Esperanto): tenth

Definitions

  1. tenth

Ancestry of “deka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperanto-aRelated to, in the manner of, of; Belonging to,...
2Italian-aUsed, with a stem, to form the third-person...
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “deka”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Esperanto -a →Every word from Latin -a →