Where does “десѧть” come from?
десѧть (Old Church Slavonic) comes from Proto-Slavic desętь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *déśimt, from Proto-Indo-European déḱm̥t — ten.
десѧть (Old Church Slavonic): ten
Ancestry of “десѧть”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Slavic | desętь | ten |
| 2 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *déśimt | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | déḱm̥t | ten |