Avestan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Sanskrit दश (dáśa), English ten.

Numeral

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𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀 (dasa)

Avestan cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 20  > 
    Cardinal : 𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀 (dasa)
    Ordinal : 𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬆𐬨𐬀 (dasəma)
  1. ten

Inflection

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Indeclinable.

References

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Martínez García, Javier, de Vaan, Michiel (2014) Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages; 1)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 66