dez (Galician)
Where does "dez" come from?
The Galician word 'dez' originates from the Latin 'decem', which traces back to the ancient Proto-Indo-European root '*déḱm̥'. This numerical ancestor has influenced countless languages over millennia, surfacing in English as 'ten' and showing clear historical connections to terms like the Greek 'déka'.
Full etymology tree
- dez (Galician), 'ten'
- inherited dez (Old Galician-Portuguese)
- inherited decem (Latin), 'ten; 10'
- inherited *dekem (Proto-Italic)
- inherited *déḱm̥ (Proto-Indo-European), 'ten'
- inherited *dekem (Proto-Italic)
- inherited decem (Latin), 'ten; 10'
- inherited dez (Old Galician-Portuguese)
Ancestors
Updated July 2026
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