Where does “dez” come from?

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

dez (Old Portuguese): ten

Definitions

  1. ten

Ancestry of “dez”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindecemten; 10
2Latin-nus-an
3Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “dez”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →