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

sixty

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sesca	sescait^L	sescait
vocative	sesca	sescait^L	*sescta
accusative	sescait^N	sescait^L	*sescta
genitive	sescat, sescot	sescat^L	sescat^N
dative	sescait^L	*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