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Where does “dekan” come from?

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

dekan (Esperanto): accusative singular of deka

Definitions

  1. accusative singular of deka

Ancestry of “dekan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantodekatenth
2Esperanto-aRelated to, in the manner of, of; Belonging to,...
3Italian-aUsed, with a stem, to form the third-person...
4Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
5Proto-Italic-ā—
6Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →