Six

six. I. 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 :-- Ceorles wergild is . cc. scil l. Ðegnes wergild is syx swá micel, L. M. L. ; Th. i. 190, 3. ' II. as subst. declined :-- 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.] six