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Where does “seasca” come from?

seasca (Irish) comes from Old Irish sesca, from Proto-Celtic *swexskonts, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱsdḱomt.

seasca (Irish): sixty

Definitions

  1. sixty

Ancestry of “seasca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishsescasixty
2Proto-Celtic*swexskonts—
3Proto-Indo-European*swéḱsdḱomt—
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