Re: [tied] -m (-n)?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > The alternative would be that *dek^-emt- is back-formed from the
> > ordinal, which would not be unprecedented?
>
> What's the precedent?
>

Eg. Slavic "five" (Russian pyat') and ten (Russian desyat').

Torsten