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Where does “triginta” come from?

triginta (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European tridḱómt, from Proto-Indo-European tri-, from Proto-Indo-European tréyes — three.

Ancestry of “triginta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeantridḱómtthirty
2Proto-Indo-Europeantri-three, threefold
3Proto-Indo-Europeantréyesthree
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