s(w)eks. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	s(w)eks
DEFINITION:	Six. Oldest form s(w)es, becoming s(w)eks in centum languages. I. Form seks. 1. six; sixteen, sixty, from Old English s(i)ex,* six, with derivatives sixtig, sixty, and sixtne, sixteen (-tne, ten; see dek), from Germanic seks. 2. senary, sex-; seicento, semester, from Latin sex,* six. 3. Suffixed form seks-to-. sestet, sestina, sext, sextant, sextile; sextodecimo, siesta, Sistine, from Latin sextus,* sixth. II. Form sweks. hexa-, hexad, from Greek hex,* six. (Pokorny ses 1044.)


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