Where does “kenz” come from?

kenz (Mauritian Creole) comes from French quinze, from Middle French quinze, from Latin quindecim, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

kenz (Mauritian Creole): fifteen

Definitions

  1. fifteen

Ancestry of “kenz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquinzefifteen
2Middle Frenchquinzefifteen
3Latinquindecimfifteen; 15
4Latindecemten; 10
5Latin-nus-an
6Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nósEvery word from Latin -nusEvery word from Latin decem