Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/hwexed

This Proto-Brythonic 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.

Proto-Brythonic

Etymology

From Proto-Insular Celtic *swexsetos,^[1] analogically remodeled after *kʷenkʷetos (“fifth”) (compare Old Irish seissed), from Proto-Celtic *swexstos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hwɛˈxɛːd/

Adjective

**Proto-Brythonic ordinal numbers**
< 5	6	7 >
Cardinal : hwex Ordinal* : *hwexed

*hwexed

sixth

Descendants

Breton: c'houecved
Cornish: hweghves, hweffes
Middle Welsh: chwechet
- Welsh: chweched, (dialectal) wechfed

References

^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “suexos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 286: “celtique insulaire a une forme *suexsetos”

[1] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “suexos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 286: “celtique insulaire a une forme *suexsetos”

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