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§7; §86; §157; §327; §447;
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  • Siex míla from ðǽre byrig. Ors. 2,

      4; S. 70, 25.

  • Siex mónað,

      2, 8; S. 94, 2.

  • Sex weðras, sex gósfuglas,

      C. D. i. 312, 8.

  • Fato sexo (sex, L.)

    hydriae sex,

      Jn. R. 2, 6.

  • Æfter dagum sex,

      Mt. L. R. 17, 1.

  • Æfter dagum sexum (sex. L.),

      Mk. R. 9, 2.

  • Mónoðas sexu (móneðum sex, L.) mensibus sex, Lk. R. 4, 25. (1 a) followed by hundred or thousand :-- Siex hund gísla, Ors. 3, 8; S. 122, 3. (1 b) coupled with a higher cardinal or ordinal :-- On six and feówertigon wintron (feówertig and sex winter, R., feórtig and sex uintro, L.)

    quadraginta et sex annis,

      Jn. 2, 20.

  • Se six-and-syxtigeða sealm,

      R. Ben. 37, 6.
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  • Þǽra diácona wæs se forma Stephanus. . . þá óþre six wǽron . . . ,

      Hml. Th. i. 44, 15.
as substantive,
the abstract number six
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  • Eahta síðon seofon beoð syx and fíftig,

      Angl. viii. 303, 3.
  • Gif eall ꝥ getæl byþ tódǽled þurh seofen . . . gyf þǽr byð án ofer. . . oððe fífe oððe syxe, 46.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “six.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/58142.

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