Time & numbers

five

Source:*pętьProto-Slaviccertain

The nasal *ę survives only in Polish pięć; elsewhere it became я/a or e.

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English

five

Polish

pięć

pjɛɲtɕ

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
пятьpjatʹ
pʲætʲinherited
Ukrainian
п’ятьpʼjatʹ
pjatʲinherited
Polish
pięć
pjɛɲtɕinherited
Czech
pět
pjɛtinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
petпет
petinherited
English
five
Distant English relative — Five and *pętь both go back to Indo-European *pénkʷe.