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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *dekam-kʷe (literally and ten), with loss of the first k by dissimilation.[1]

Numeral

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deäc

  1. -teen

Usage notes

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When modifying a noun to indicate an amount between 11 and 19, deac follows the noun while its accompanying numeral simultaneously precedes the noun.

Quotations

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  • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 16c10
    cóic bliadni deäcfifteen years (literally, “five years -teen”)

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: déc

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
deäc deäc
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndeäc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter (1993) “Varia IV. OIr. dëec, dëac”, in Ériu, volume 44, pages 181–84

Further reading

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