Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sehstō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Altered from Proto-Germanic *sehtô, the *s being imported from *sehs.[1]

Adjective

*sehstō[2]

sixth

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: sixta, siexta, syxta, sihsta, sexta, sesta
- Middle English: sixte
  - English: sixth
  - Scots: sixt, sext, saxt
Old Frisian: sexta
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: seekst
  Helgoland: sös
- Saterland Frisian: säkste
- West Frisian: sechste
Old Saxon: sehsto
- Middle Low German: seste, sēste, söste
  - German Low German: sessde, sessd
Old Dutch: *sesto
- Middle Dutch: seste, sesde
  - Dutch: zesde
    - Afrikaans: sesde
    - Negerhollands: sesde
    - → Kwinti: zesde
  - Limburgish: zèsdje
Old High German: sehsto
- Middle High German: sehste
  - Cimbrian: zèkste
  - German: sechste
  - Yiddish: זעקסט‎ (zekst)

References

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”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sehtan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[2] 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”