Where does “dekan” come from?

dekan (Swedish) 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 (Swedish): decane; dean; senior office in a university

Definitions

  1. decane; dean; senior office in a university

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 →