Where does “dis” come from?

dis (Louisiana Creole French) comes from French dix, from Old French dis, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

dis (Louisiana Creole French): ten; to tell

Definitions

  1. ten; to tell

Ancestry of “dis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdixten
2Old Frenchdisten; inflection of dire: ## first/second-person...
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →