sjau

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sebun (whence also Old English seofon, Old High German sibun, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun)), from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral

sjau

(cardinal) seven

Descendants

Danish: syv (Old Danish siu)
Faroese: sjey
Icelandic: sjö

Norwegian Bokmål: sju, syv
Norwegian Nynorsk: sju, sjau (dialectal)
Swedish: sju (Old Swedish siu)

References

sjau in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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