English Wiktionary account
Source-reportedMeaning: “to seem, appear, look” + “strength, power”
Composed of a cognate of Latin decus (“ornament”), decet (“to look like, to befit”), a cognate of Albanian duket (“to seem, appear, look”) + a cognate of Sanskrit बल (bala, “strength, power”) and of Old Church Slavonic бол҄ии (bolʹii, “great”). Possibly a loanword, since the k sound would have evolved into a sibilant in a proper Daco-Moesian language.
Sources for this account (1)
- Wiktionary: DekebalusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

