Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/devętь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Compare Latvian deviņi, Lithuanian devyni, from Eastern Baltic *dewin, ultimately of the same Indo-European root. The initial 'd' in Eastern Baltic and Slavic has sometimes been explained as dissimilation, or by alliteration to *desętь (“ten”) (compare a similar alliteration that may have occurred in Proto-Germanic between *fedwōr (“four”) and *fimf (“five”)).

Noun

**Proto-Slavic numbers ^(edit)**
	90
← 8	9	10 →
Cardinal: devętь Ordinal: devętъ Adverbial: devętь kortь Multiplier: devętьnъ, devętь kortьnъ Collective: devętero Fractional: *devętina

*dȅvętь f[1][2]

nine

Declension

Declension of *devętь (consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*devętь	—	—
Accusative	*devętь	—	—
Genitive	*devęte	—	—
Locative	*devęte	—	—
Dative	*devęti	—	—
Instrumental	*devętьjǫ	—	—
Vocative	—	—	—

Derived terms

*devęsilъ (“an Asteraceae medicinal plant”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: де́вѧть (dévętĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: де́вѧть (dévjatʹ), де́веть (dévetʹ)
    - Belarusian: дзе́вяць (dzjévjacʹ)
    - Rusyn: де́вять (dévjatʹ)
    - Ukrainian: дев'ять (devʺjatʹ)
  - Russian: де́вять (dévjatʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: девѧть (devętĭ)
  Glagolitic: ⰴⰵⰲⱔⱅⱐ (devętĭ)
- Bulgarian: девет (devet), де́вен (déven) (dialectal, with a decomposed nasalism and loss of final t)
- Macedonian: девет (devet)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: девет
  Latin: devet
- Slovene: devẹ̑t (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: devět
  - Czech: devět
- Kashubian: dzewińc, dzewiãc
- Polabian: divąt
- Polish: dziewięć
- Silesian: dziewiyńć
- Slovak: deväť
- Slovincian: ʒìe̯vjinc
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: źewjeś, źewjeśo
  - Upper Sorbian: dźewjeć

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dȅvętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 101: “num. i (c) ‘nine’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “devętь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c nine (PR 138)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dȅvętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 101: “num. i (c) ‘nine’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “devętь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c nine (PR 138)”