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six

  • noun
  • numeral
  • adjective
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Grammar
six, siex, syx six.
Wright's OE grammar
§7; §86; §157; §327; §447;
as adj. indecl. : — Wirc six dagas, Ex. 20, 9. On six dagum God geworhte ealle þing, 20, 11. Æfter six (sex, Lind. , Rush. ) dagum, Mt. Kmbl. 17, I- Betweox ðara sex fífa ǽlcum, Lchdm. ii. 148, 2. Sex bis terna, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 10. On siex dagum, Exon. Th. 105, 13; Gú. 22. Da siex stafas sweotule bécnaþ, 407, 4; Ra. 25, 10. Syx (sex, Lind. , Rush. ) dagon ǽr, Jn. Skt. 12, 1. 1a. in multiplication
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  • Ceorles wergild is . cc. scił ł. Ðegnes wergild is syx swá micel,

      L. M. L. ; Th. i. 190, 3. '
as subst. declined
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  • Ða hyra syxe wǽron ácwealde,

      Shrn. 111, 10.
  • On ðam mynstre wǽron fíf brð þra oððe syxe,

      Bd. 4, 13 ; S. 582, 22.
  • Hé sǽde ðæt hé syxa sum ofslóge syxtig,

      Ors. 1, 1 ; Swt. 18, 7.
  • Ymbsealde sint mid sixum. Elen. Kmbl. 1481; El. 472. [Goth. saihs: O. Sax. sehs: O. Frs. sex: O. H. Ger. sehs: Icel. sex.]
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v.  siex syx.
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  • six, n.; num.; adj.