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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *sehs</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_sehs</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_sweks" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*swéḱs</orth>
          <def>six</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_sas" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>षष्</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ṣáṣ</orth>
          </form>
        </item>
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          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>sehs</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsexs</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛖᚺᛊ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>numeral</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>six</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From earlier *swehs, from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_sweks"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_sweks">*swéḱs</ref></mentioned> (‘six’) with a loss of *w (as also seen in Latin sex and Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_sas"><ref target="#cog_san_sas">षष्</ref></mentioned> (ṣáṣ) (&lt; Proto-Indo-Iranian *šwáćš)).</seg>
          </etym>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>ses</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>ses</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>zès</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>West Flemish</lang>
                        <orth>zèsse</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Zealandic</lang>
                        <orth>zes</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>ses</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>ses</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>zes</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>ses</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>sesi</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Javindo</lang>
                          <orth>ses</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>zääs</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>ses, sees</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Skepi Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>ses</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Trió</lang>
                          <orth>ses</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>six, sex, siex, syx, seox</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>six, cix, cex, sex, zix</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>sax, sex, six</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>zeese</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>six, sex, siex, syx, seox</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>six, cix, cex, sex, zix</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>six</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Saramaccan</lang>
                          <orth>sigisi</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>six, sex, siex, syx, seox</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>six, cix, cex, sex, zix</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>six</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Sranan Tongo</lang>
                          <orth>siksi</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Aukan</lang>
                            <orth>siksi</orth>
                            <form type="descendant">
                              <lang>Wayana</lang>
                              <orth>siksi</orth>
                            </form>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>sex</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>säks</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>seis</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>sehs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>sehs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>sächs, saks, säks, säksch</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>sechs, sähs</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>East Central German</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>sechs</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Rhine Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>sechs</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>זעקס (zeks)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>sehs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>ses, sēs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>sass</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sehs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>sehs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>ses, sēs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>sess, söß</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Dutch Low Saxon</lang>
                          <orth>zes</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>sess, söß, söss, soss</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sex</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>sjäks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sex</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>siks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sex</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>sæx, ᛋᛁᛆᚼᛋ, siahs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>seks</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sex</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>siex</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                      <orth>siex, sex</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sex</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>sæx, siæx</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>sex</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjax</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>sjäks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sex</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>siks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>seks</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjax</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>sæx, ᛋᛁᛆᚼᛋ, siahs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>seks</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjax</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>siex</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                      <orth>siex, sex</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sjax</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>sæx, siæx</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>sex</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 (saihs)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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