sesca

Old Irish

Etymology

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Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  50	60	70  >
Cardinal : sesca     Ordinal : sescatmad

sesca m

1. sixty

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sesca	sescaitL	sescait
Vocative	sesca	sescaitL	*sescta
Accusative	sescaitN	sescaitL	*sescta
Genitive	sescat, sescot	sescatL	sescatN
Dative	sescaitL	*sesctaib	*sesctaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: sesca
  • Irish: seasca
  • Scottish Gaelic: seasgad

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sesca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language