secht

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Middle Dutch

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Verb

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secht

  1. inflection of seggen:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    3. plural imperative

Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish secht, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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Middle Irish cardinal numbers
 <  6 7 8  > 
    Cardinal : secht
    Ordinal : sechtmad

secht

  1. seven
    • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, lines 10–12:
      Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori.
      [There are] seven doors in the hall and seven paths through it and seven hearths and seven cauldrons.

Descendants

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  • Irish: seacht
  • Manx: shiaght
  • Scottish Gaelic: seachd

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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Old Irish cardinal numbers
 <  6 7 8  > 
    Cardinal : secht
    Ordinal : sechtmad
    Male personal : mórfeiser

secht

  1. seven
    • c. 900, Aided óenfir Aífe from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in “The death of Conla”, Ériu 1 (1904), pages 113–121, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §2
      Do·luid in mac dia secht mbliadan do chuindchid a athar.
      The seven-year-old boy came in search of his father.

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