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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/šéš
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. The initial consonant was assimilated to the final one.
Numeral
*šéš[1][2]
- six
Descendants
- Latgalian: seši
- Latvian: seši
- Lithuanian: šešì
- ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *šȅstь (< *šeš-ti) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*šȇstь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487: “*ṣeṣ”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “šeši”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 446: “*ṣeṣ”