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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šestъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śeśtas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsth₂o- or *suḱsth₂o-. Cognate with Lithuanian šẽštas (sixth) Latvian sȩstais (sixth), Old Prussian wuschts, usts, uschts (sixth), Sanskrit षष्ठ (ṣaṣṭha, sixth). Per Derksen, the oldest Balto-Slavic form may have been *uśtas, on the strength of the Old Prussian evidence, with *śeśtas a later development influenced by *śeś (six).

Adjective

Proto-Slavic numbers (edit)
   5 6 7   
    Cardinal: *šestь
    Ordinal: *šestъ

*šȅstъ [1]

  1. sixth

Declension

Accent paradigm c.

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: шестъ (šestŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⱎⰵⱄⱅⱏ (šestŭ)
    • Bulgarian: ше́сти (šésti)
    • Macedonian: шести (šesti)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ше̏стӣ
      Latin: šȅstī
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): šẽstī
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): šⁱẽstī (the sixth)
    • Slovene: šẹ́sti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: šéstý
      • Czech: šestý, (dialectal) šéstý
    • Kashubian: szósti
    • Polabian: sistĕ
    • Polish: szósty
    • Slovak: šiesty
    • Sorbian:

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*šȇstъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487
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