Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehs

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sehs.

Numeral

Proto-West Germanic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *sehs

*sehs

1. six

Descendants

• Old English: six, sex — Anglian, siex, syx, seox
  • Middle English: six, cex, sex, zix (Kent)
    • English: six
      • Sranan Tongo: siksi
        • Aukan: siksi
          • → Wayana: siksi
      • Saramaccan: sigisi
    • Scots: sax, sex, six
    • Yola: zeese
• Old Frisian: sex
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum, Mooring and Wiedingharde: seeks

    Helgoland: sös

    Sylt: soks

  • Saterland Frisian: säks
  • West Frisian: seis
• Old Saxon: sehs
  • Middle Low German: ses, sēs
    • Dutch Low Saxon: zes
    • German Low German: sess, söß, söss, soss
    • Plautdietsch: sass
• Old Dutch: sehs, *ses
  • Middle Dutch: ses
    • Dutch: zes
      • Afrikaans: ses
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: sesi
      • Javindo: ses
      • Jersey Dutch: zääs
      • Negerhollands: ses, sees
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: ses
      • → Trió: ses
    • Limburgish: zès
    • West Flemish: zèsse
    • Zealandic: zes
• Old High German: sehs
  • Middle High German: sehs
    • Alemannic German: sächs, saks (Uri), säks (southern Bern, Graubünden), säksch (Valais), säks, säksch
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: zèkse, sèkse (Luserna)

      Mòcheno: secks

    • Central Franconian: sechs, sähs (Ripuarian)

      Hunsrik: sechs

      Luxembourgish: sechs

    • East Central German:

      Vilamovian: zachs

    • East Franconian:
    • German: sechs
    • Rhine Franconian: sechs

      Frankfurterisch: [z̥εks]

      Pennsylvania German: sechs

    • Yiddish: זעקס (zeks)