Avestan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *pánča, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pánča, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Cognate with Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan), and English five.

Numeral

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𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬗𐬀 (paṇca)

Avestan cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬗𐬀 (paṇca)
    Ordinal : 𐬞𐬎𐬑𐬜𐬀- (puxδa-)
  1. five

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