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Where does “vint” come from?

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

vint (Ladin): twenty

Definitions

  1. twenty

Ancestry of “vint”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvīgintī—
2Latinquīnque—
3Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →