Where does “dies” come from?

dies (Papiamentu) comes from Kabuverdianu dés, 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.

dies (Papiamentu): ten

Definitions

  1. ten

Ancestry of “dies”, step by step

dies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Kabuverdianu dés

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kabuverdianudésten
2Portuguesedezten; awesome, amazing; very cool, very nice
3Old Portuguesedezten
4Latindecemten; 10
5Latin-nus-an
6Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

via Spanish diez

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishdiezten; A
2Old Spanishdiezten
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →