secht

secht

1. inflection of seggen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. plural imperative

From Old Irish secht, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

• IPA^(key): /ɕext/

secht

1. seven
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, lines 10–12:

     Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori.

     seven doors in the hall and seven paths through it and seven hearths and seven cauldrons.

• Irish: seacht
• Manx: shiaght
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd

From Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

• IPA^(key): /sʲext/

secht

1. seven
   • c. 900, Aided óenfir Aífe from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in “The death of Conla”, Ériu 1 (1904), pages 113–121, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §2

     Do·luid in mac dia secht mbliadan do chuindchid a athar.

     The seven-year-old boy came in search of his father.

• Middle Irish: secht
  • Irish: seacht
  • Manx: shiaght
  • Scottish Gaelic: seachd