seši
Latgalian edit
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Cardinal : seši Ordinal : sasts | ||
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šéš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Cognates include Latvian seši and Lithuanian šeši.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
seši
Declension edit
Declension of seši
References edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
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Cardinal : seši Ordinal : sestais Multiplier : sešreiz Nominal : sešnieks Fractional : sestdaļa | ||
Latvian Wikipedia article on 6 (skaitlis) |
Numeral edit
seši
- 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
- six (an amount equal to six)
- seši metri ― six meters
- sešas dienas ― six days
- 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 edit
declension of seši
Coordinate terms edit
Latvian cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “seši”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN