Where does “dekan” come from?

dekan (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German Dekan, from Latin decānus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

dekan (Serbo-Croatian): dean

Definitions

dean

Ancestry of “dekan”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	German	Dekan	dean; decane Decan n
2	Latin	decānus	chief of ten people (in various contexts)
3	Latin	decem	ten; 10
4	Latin	-nus	-an
5	Proto-Italic	-nos	Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6	Proto-Indo-European	-nós	Creates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “dekan”

prodekan

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