sesca

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swexskonts, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱsdḱomt.

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  50	60	70  >
Cardinal : sesca     Ordinal : sescatmad

sesca m

1. sixty

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sesca	sescaitL	sescait
vocative	sesca	sescaitL	*sescta
accusative	sescaitN	sescaitL	*sescta
genitive	sescat, sescot	sescatL	sescatN
dative	sescaitL	*sesctaib	*sesctaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: sesca
  • Irish: seasca
  • Scottish Gaelic: seasgad

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sesca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language