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Where does “veynteno” come from?

veynteno (Old Spanish) comes from Old Spanish veynte, from Latin vīgintī, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

veynteno (Old Spanish): twentieth

Definitions

  1. twentieth

Ancestry of “veynteno”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishveyntetwenty
2Latinvīgintī—
3Latinquīnque—
4Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive
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