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As Angr says, according to the standards used in constructing articles for Wikipedia, what is important is important is not what may make sense in my opinion or Rex’ or Nixer’s or Angr’s or dab's. Rather it is the opinions of scholarly experts like Beekes. According to Beekes, Germanic and Slavic are known to have reconstructed the decades (twenty, for example from two tens): He lists for Gothic “twai tigjus, þreis tigjus, etc”; and for OCS (partly Romanized) “dъva desęti, trьje desęte, četyre desęte, pętь desętъ, sestь desętъ, etc.” Beekes, however, reconstructs the PIE decades with dentals: duidḱmti, trih₂dḱomth₂, kʷetur-, penkʷe-, ueks-, septm-, h₃ekth₃, h₁neun-, dḱmtóm.” Presumably this implies that -dḱomth₂ is repeated at each hyphen. So it appears that the answer to Rex and Nixer’s question of where did the dental come from in modern Germanic and Slavic languages is that it was reconstructed by analogy. And presumably the answer to Angr’s question of why there is no dental in Sanskrit (triṁśát), Greek (triakonta), or Latin (viginti) is that it was lost by euphony before the tectal.
[edit] Number Table
| Sihler 1995, 402–24 | Beekes 1995, 212–16 | |
| one | *Hoi-no-/*Hoi-wo-/*Hoi-k(ʷ)o-; *sem- | *Hoi(H)nos |
| two | *d(u)wo- | *duoh₁ |
| three | *trei- (full grade)/*tri- (zero grade) | *treies |
| four | *kʷetwor- (o-grade)/*kʷetur- (zero grade), see also the kʷetwóres rule |
*kʷetuōr |
| five | *penkʷe | *penkʷe |
| six | *s(w)eḱs; originally perhaps *weḱs | *(s)uéks |
| seven | *septm̥ | *séptm |
| eight | *oḱtō, *oḱtou or *h₃eḱtō, *h₃eḱtou | *h₃eḱteh₃ |
| nine | *(h₁)newn̥ | *(h₁)néun |
| ten | *deḱm̥(t) | *déḱmt |
| twenty | *wīḱm̥t-; originally perhaps *widḱomt- | *duidḱmti |
| thirty | *trīḱomt-; originally perhaps *tridḱomt- | *trih₂dḱomth₂ |
| forty | *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt-; originally perhaps *kʷetwr̥dḱomt- | *kʷetur- |
| fifty | *penkʷēḱomt-; originally perhaps *penkʷedḱomt- | *penkʷe- |
| sixty | *s(w)eḱsḱomt-; originally perhaps *weḱsdḱomt- | *ueks- |
| seventy | *septm̥̄ḱomt-; originally perhaps *septm̥dḱomt- | *septm- |
| eighty | *oḱtō(u)ḱomt-; originally perhaps *h₃eḱto(u)dḱomt- | *h₃eḱth₃- |
| ninety | *(h₁)newn̥̄ḱomt-; originally perhaps *h₁newn̥dḱomt- | *h₁neun- |
| hundred | *ḱm̥tom; originally perhaps *dḱm̥tom | *dḱmtóm |
| thousand | *ǵheslo-, *teudḱomt- | *ǵʰes-l- |
