Where does “dez” come from?

dez (Macanese) comes from Portuguese dez, from Old Portuguese dez, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

dez (Macanese): ten (10)

Definitions

  1. ten (10)

Ancestry of “dez”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesedezten; awesome, amazing; very cool, very nice
2Old Portuguesedezten
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 →