Where does “kahdeskymmenes” come from?

kahdeskymmenes (Finnish) comes from Finnish kahdes, from Finnish kaksi, from Proto-Finnic kakci, from Proto-Uralic *kakta.

kahdeskymmenes (Finnish): twentieth

Definitions

  1. twentieth

Ancestry of “kahdeskymmenes”, step by step

kahdeskymmenes traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kahdes

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkahdessecond, two
2Finnishkaksitwo
3Proto-Finnickakcitwo
4Proto-Uralic*kakta—

via Finnish kymmenes

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkymmenestenth
2Proto-Finnickümmenectenth
3Proto-Finnickümmenten; decade, group of ten

Words derived from “kahdeskymmenes”

Every word from Proto-Uralic *kakta →Every word from Proto-Finnic kakci →Every word from Finnish kaksi →