seši

See also: sesi and šeši

Latgalian

Latgalian cardinal numbers
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    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 > probably caused by the final plural i, extended to this previously undeclinable stem by analogy), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *šéš (or *séš, if ruki sound law is applied regularly and without assimilation with final consonant), ultimately 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 sešifive plus one is six
    pie sešiem pieskaitīt vienuto add one to six
    skaitīt no viens līdz sešito count from one to six
  2. six (an amount equal to six)
    seši metrisix meters
    sešas dienassix days
  3. six o'clock (a moment in time; six hours after midnight, or after noon)
    pulkstenis ir sešiit is six o'clock
    beigt darbu sešos pēc pusdienasto finish work at six o'clock after lunch (= in the afternoon)
    ierasties sešos un divdesmit minūtēsto arrive at 10 minutes past six

Declension

Declension of seši
masculine feminine
nominative seši sešas
genitive sešu sešu
dative sešiem sešām
accusative sešus sešas
instrumental sešiem sešām
locative sešos sešās
vocative

Coordinate terms

See also

References

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