desmit

Latgalian

Latgalian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : desmit
    Ordinal : dasmyts

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *deśimt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognates include Latvian desmit and Lithuanian dešimt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdʲɛsʲmʲit]
  • Hyphenation: des‧mit

Numeral

desmit

  1. ten

References

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33

Latvian

Etymology

From the noun desmits (“group of ten”), from *desimtis by metathesis, from Proto-Baltic *dešimtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”) with a suffix -(t)i-s marking collective number (“group of ten”).

Pronunciation

Latvian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : desmit
    Ordinal : desmitais
    Multiplier : desmitreiz
    Nominal : desmitnieks
    Fractional : desmitdaļa
Latvian Wikipedia article on desmit
  • IPA(key): [dɛsmit]
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Numeral

desmit

  1. ten (the cipher, the cardinal number ten)
    skaitīt līdz desmit ― to count to ten
    pieci un pieci ir desmit ― five plus five is ten
    desmit un desmit ir divdesmit ― ten plus ten is twenty
  2. ten (an amount equal to ten)
    desmit ābolu ― ten apples
    samaksāt desmit latu ― to pay ten lats
    nobraukt desmit kilometru ― to travel ten kilometers
    desmit gados man jāapmāca... ― in ten years I have to train, instruct...
  3. ten o'clock (a moment in time; ten hours after midnight, or after noon)
    pulkstenis ir desmit ― it is ten o'clock
    lekcija sākas desmitos ― the lesson begins at ten o'clock
    jāgaida līdz desmitiem ― (we) must wait until ten o'clock

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References

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