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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 112

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01uncertainNO SINGLE PIN

Proto-Indo-European prehistory

Reconstructed Indo-European speech communities

decimate DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The numeral *dekm̥ “ten” is a comparative reconstruction. AHD identifies its older form as *dek̑m̥ and explicitly lists decimate among the Latin decem descendants.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
uncertain
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The source supports the reconstructed numeral and descendant family but does not assign this lexical stage one defensible calendar interval or point location.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Indo-European Root dekm̥

    Defines reconstructed *dekm̥ as “ten,” gives older *dek̑m̥, and lists decimate among the Latin decem derivatives without assigning a calendar interval or point location.

    Root dekm̥, heading and basic formAUDIT SOURCE ↗