վեց

From Old Armenian վեց (vecʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /vet͡sʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /vet͡s/,

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վեց • (vecʻ)

1. six

From Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. To account for initial վ- (v-) instead of expected ք- (kʻ-) one assumes a by-form *suwéḱs for the Armenian, which is either a Sievers–Lindeman variant or contains a secondary *u from the ordinal *suḱso- seen in Old Prussian usts (“sixth”).^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

վեց • (vecʻ)

1. six

   վեց ամիս ― vecʻ amis ― six months

The word has the following combining forms: վեց- (vecʻ-), վեշ- (veš-).

• վաթսուն (vatʻsun)

• Armenian: վեց (vecʻ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վեց”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 333ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վեց”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վեց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy