विंशति

Sanskrit

**Sanskrit numbers (edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 19	२० 20	21 →
	2
Cardinal: विंशति (viṃśati)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *HwiHśati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHĉati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (vīsaiti), Hindi बीस (bīs), Punjabi ਵੀਹ (wīh), Persian (bist), Kurdish bîst, Khotanese bistä (bistä), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Old Armenian քսան (kʿsan), Albanian (një)zet, Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Old Irish fiche and Tocharian A wiki.

Numeral

विंशति • (viṃśatí)

twenty, a score (with a noun either in genitive or in apposition, e.g.)

विंशतिर् घटानाम् ― viṃśatir ghaṭānām ― 20 jars

विंशत्या हरिभिः ― viṃśatyā haribhiḥ ― with 20 horses

Descendants

Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀯𑀻𑀲𑀇 (vīsaï)
Magadhi Prakrit: [Term?]
- Bengali–Assamese:
  - Assamese: বিশ (bix)
  - Bengali: বিশ (biś)
- Hajong: বিশ (bis)
Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀯𑀻𑀲𑀇 (vīsaï)
- Marathi: वीस (vīs)
- Konkani: वीस (vīs)
Pali: vīsati
Sauraseni Prakrit: [Term?]
- Central Indo-Aryan:
  - Hindustani:
    Hindi: बीस (bīs)
    
    Urdu: بیس‎ (bīs)
  - Pahari:
    - Nepali: बीस (bīsa)
- Northwestern Indo-Aryan:
  - Punjabi: ਵੀਹ (vīh)
- Western Indo-Aryan:
  - Gujarati: વીસ (vīs)

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0953

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