Where does “*dekan” come from?

*dekan (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Latin decānus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

*dekan (Proto-West Germanic): dean

Definitions

  1. dean

Ancestry of “*dekan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindecānuschief of ten people (in various contexts)
2Latindecemten; 10
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “*dekan”

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