Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehstō
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Altered from Proto-Germanic *sehtô, the *s being imported from *sehs.[1]
Adjective edit
*sehstō[2]
Inflection edit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
- Old English: sixta, siexta, syxta, sihsta, sexta, sesta
- Old Frisian: sexta
- Old Saxon: sehsto
- Old Dutch: *sesto
- Old High German: sehsto
References edit
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sehtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157: “PWGmc *sehstō”