seši

See also: sesi and šeši

Latgalian

Latgalian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : seši
    Ordinal : sasts

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šéš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Cognates include Latvian seši and Lithuanian šeši.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲɛʃi]
  • Hyphenation: se‧ši

Numeral

seši

  1. six

Declension

References

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33

Latvian

Etymology

From a previous stem *ses- (whence the ordinal sestais; s > š probably caused by the final plural i, extended to this previously undeclinable stem by analogy), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *šéš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.[1]

Pronunciation

Latvian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : seši
    Ordinal : sestais
    Multiplier : sešreiz
    Nominal : sešnieks
    Fractional : sestdaļa
  • IPA(key): [sɛʃi]

Numeral

seši

  1. six (the cipher, the cardinal number six)
    pieci un viens ir seši ― five plus one is six
    pie sešiem pieskaitīt vienu ― to add one to six
    skaitīt no viens līdz seši ― to count from one to six
  2. six (an amount equal to six)
    seši metri ― six meters
    sešas dienas ― six days
  3. six o'clock (a moment in time; six hours after midnight, or after noon)
    pulkstenis ir seši ― it is six o'clock
    beigt darbu sešos pēc pusdienas ― to finish work at six o'clock after lunch (= in the afternoon)
    ierasties sešos un divdesmit minūtēs ― to arrive at 10 minutes past six

Declension

Coordinate terms

See also

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “seši”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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