devyni
Pronunciation: [dʲɛʋʲiːˈnʲɪ]
“devyni” is a Lithuanian word. Its meaning in English:
numeral
Etymology
From a previous undeclinable Eastern Baltic *dewin-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *néwin, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥, *néwn̥ (“nine”). Probably from the same stem as *néwos- (“new”); apparently Proto-Indo-European had a base 4 numeric system, so that, after two 4's (= 8), 9 was the first (“new”) to be part of a complex numeral (compare Ossetian фараст (farast, “nine”) = фар (far, “over”) + аст…
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