Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šestь

This Proto-Slavic 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.

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šestъ

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Pre-Slavic *šešti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *šéš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs, with -t- taken over from the ordinal *šestъ.

Noun

**Proto-Slavic numbers ^(edit)**
	60
← 5	6	7 →
Cardinal: šestь Ordinal: šestъ Adverbial: šestь kortь Multiplier: šesterъnъ, šestь kortьnъ Collective: šestero Fractional: *šestina

*šȅstь f^[1]^[2]^[3]

six

Declension

Declension of *šestь (consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*šestь	—	—
Accusative	*šestь	—	—
Genitive	*šeste	—	—
Locative	*šeste	—	—
Dative	*šesti	—	—
Instrumental	*šestьjǫ	—	—
Vocative	—	—	—

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: шесть (šestĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: шесть (šestʹ)
    - Belarusian: шэсць (šescʹ); шэсьць (šesʹcʹ) (Taraškievica orthography)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: шість (šistʹ)
    - Ukrainian: шість (šistʹ)
  - Russian: шесть (šestʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Old Cyrillic script: шесть (šestĭ)
  - Glagolitic script: ⱎⰵⱄⱅⱐ (šestĭ)
- Bulgarian: шест (šest)
- Macedonian: шест (šest)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic script: ше̑ст
  - Latin script: šȇst
- Slovene: šẹ̑st (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: šest
  - Czech: šest
- Old Polish: sześć, szeć
  - Polish: sześć
  - Silesian: sześć
- Old Slovak: šesť
  - Pannonian Rusyn: шейсц (šejsc)
  - Slovak: šesť
- Polabian: sist
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: szesc
  - Slovincian: szêsc
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: šesć
  - Upper Sorbian: šěsć

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: “num. (c) ‘six’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “šestь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c seks (NA 129; SA 25; PR 138)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “šẹ̑st”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*šȅstь”

[1] 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: “num. (c) ‘six’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “šestь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c seks (NA 129; SA 25; PR 138)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016) “šẹ̑st”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*šȅstь”

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