𐬑𐬴𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬱

Avestan

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *xšwáš (compare Persian شش‎ (šeš), Kurdish şeş), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *šwaĉš (compare Sanskrit षष् (ṣáṣ)), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (compare Lithuanian šešì, Tocharian B ṣkas, Latin sex, Old Church Slavonic шесть (šestĭ), Old English siex (English six)).

Numeral

𐬑𐬴𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬱 • (xṣ̌uuaš)

Avestan cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : 𐬑𐬴𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬱 (xṣ̌uuaš)
  1. (cardinal) six

Inflection

Indeclinable.

References

Martínez García, Javier; de Vaan, Michiel (2014) Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages; 1), Brill, →ISBN, page 66

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