Where does “dvidešimtmetis” come from?

dvidešimtmetis (Lithuanian) comes from Lithuanian metai, from Lithuanian metas — time.

dvidešimtmetis (Lithuanian): period of twenty years

Definitions

  1. period of twenty years

Ancestry of “dvidešimtmetis”, step by step

dvidešimtmetis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Lithuanian metai

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lithuanianmetaiyear
2Lithuanianmetastime

via Lithuanian dvidešimt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lithuaniandvidešimttwenty
2Proto-Indo-Europeandwi(h₁)dḱm̥titwo tens; two decades; twenty; two-ten
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