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seis

plural of sei

Isse, sies, sise, -sies, -esis

From Dutch zeis, from Middle Dutch seise, from older seisene, from Proto-West Germanic *segisnu. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. odt missing

IPA(key): /səis/

seis (plural seise)

scythe
Synonym: sens

Aragonese cardinal numbers

< 5	6	7 >
Cardinal : seis

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

seis

Asturian cardinal numbers

< 5	6	7 >
Cardinal : seis Ordinal : sestu

seyes (Eastern)
ses (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Leonese seis from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

IPA(key): /ˈsei̯s/ [ˈsei̯s]
Rhymes: -ei̯s
Syllabification: seis

seis (indeclinable)

“seis”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “seis”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Central Bikol numbers (edit)

seys, seyis
sais, says, sayis

Borrowed from Spanish seis.

IPA(key): /seˈʔis/ [seˈʔis]
Hyphenation: se‧is

seís (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜁᜐ᜔)

six
Synonym: anom

Chavacano numbers (edit)

← 5	6	7 →
Cardinal: seis Ordinal: ika-seis, sexto

sais

Inherited from Spanish seis (“six”).

IPA(key): /ˈseis/, [ˈsei̯s]
IPA(key): /saˈʔis/, [saˈʔis] (colloquial)
Hyphenation: se‧is

seis

From Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA(key): /ses/ with a short vowel[1]

seis

six
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor, page 389:
  Jussus ita numerabat. Ita, tua, tria, fyder, fyuf, seis, sevene, prorsus, ut nos Flandri.
  When I asked him to count, he did so as follows: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, just as we Flemings do.
^ https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100#grammar_718

Akin to Spanish, from Latin sex.

seis

IPA(key): /ˈsei̯s/
Rhymes: -ei̯s
Syllabification: seis

Fala numbers (edit)

← 5	6	7 →
Cardinal: seis Ordinal: sextu

From Old Galician-Portuguese seis, from Latin sex (“six”).

seis

seis m pl

masculine plural of sei (“his, her, its, their”)

seis m pl

masculine plural of sei (“his, hers, its, theirs”)

Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 256

Originally the second-person singular imperative of seistä — the meaning “stand” has turned into “stop”. This is however generally no longer considered a verb form, seeing as it has been used as such an established interjection, and consonant-stem verb forms have generally fallen out of use (note that e.g. seistä is defective in modern Finnish).

IPA(key): /ˈsei̯s/, [ˈs̠e̞i̯s̠]
Rhymes: -eis
Syllabification(key): seis
Hyphenation(key): seis

seis!

stop! (do not move! stop moving!)
stop, cease, halt
Synonyms: poikki, stop
työt seis! ― stop working!
pelit seis! ― halt the game! / stop playing!

hätä-seis-painike
“seis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Essi, essi

Galician numbers (edit)

| | 60[a], [b] | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ---------------------------------- | | ← 5 | 6 | 7 → | | Cardinal: seis Ordinal: sexto Ordinal abbreviation: 6º Multiplier (standard): séxtuplo Multiplier (reintegrationist): sêxtuplo | | | | Galician Wikipedia article on 6 | | |

From Old Galician-Portuguese seis, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

IPA(key): /ˈsejs/ [ˈs̺ejs̺]
Rhymes: -ejs

seis (indeclinable)

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “seis”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “seis”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seis”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seis”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Guinea-Bissau Creole

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Guinea-Bissau Creole cardinal numbers

< 5	6	7 >
Cardinal : seis

From Portuguese seis. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sais.

seis

six (6)

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈsetisːæ/, [ˈs̠e̞tʲiˑs̠ː]
(Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈse.is/, [ˈʃe̞.iˑʒ̥]
Rhymes: -etisː, -e.is
Hyphenation: seis

seis

inessive plural of setä

Livonian numbers (edit)

| | 70 | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ------------------------------------------------ | | ← 6 | 7 | 8 → | | Cardinal: seis Ordinal: seismõz, seismi | | |

From Proto-Finnic *säic'en.

IPA(key): /ˈseis/, [ˈse̯iˑsˑ]

seis

seven

Livonian cardinals (1–11):

ikš, kakš, kuolm, nēļa, vīž, kūž, seis, kōdõks, īdõks, kim, ikštuoistõn

Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “seis”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[3] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Mirandese numbers (edit)

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

seis

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

IPA(key): /sɛjs/

seis

Occitan: sièis

Papiamentu cardinal numbers

< 5	6	7 >
Cardinal : seis

From Portuguese seis and Spanish seis and Kabuverdianu sais.

seis

six (6)

Portuguese numbers (edit)

seys, seix (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese seis, seys, from Latin sex (“six”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).

(Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsejs/ [ˈseɪ̯s]
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsejs/ [ˈseɪ̯s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsejʃ/ [ˈseɪ̯ʃ]
(Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɐjʃ/
(Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɐjʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsejʃ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsejʃ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈseʃ/
Rhymes: -ejʃ
Hyphenation: seis

seis m or f

For quotations using this term, see Citations:seis.

seis m (invariable)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:seis.

Kabuverdianu: sais
Macanese: sês
Papiamentu: seis

Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text)

ás	dois, duque	três, terno	quatro, quadra	cinco, quina	seis, sena	sete, bisca, manilha

oito	nove	dez	valete	dama, rainha	rei	jóquer, curinga

“seis”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“seis”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
sis (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
ses (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin sex (compare Spanish seis), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

seis

(Surmiran) six

seis

third-person singular simple present indicative form of sei

Inherited from Middle Irish *seise, from Old Norse sessi.

seis m (genitive singular **seis, plural seisean)

sufficiency, enough
match, equal
Cha d'fhuair Fionn a sheis riamh.
Finn never met his match.
Tha do sheis an taic riut.
Your match is in contact with you.
friend, companion
satisfaction
treat, entertainment

Spanish numbers (edit)

seyes

Inherited from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), French six, Old English six (English six).

IPA(key): /ˈseis/ [ˈsei̯s]
Rhymes: -eis
Syllabification: seis

seis

six
- 2025 July 7, Sophie Tanno, “Aumentan los llamados para prohibir al partido ultraderechista AfD en Alemania, pese a su creciente popularidad”, in CNN en Español‎[4]:
  Varios intentos —en 2003, 2016 y 2021— de prohibir al ultraderechista Partido Nacional Democrático de Alemania (NPD) fracasaron. Aunque en 2017 el tribunal reconoció abiertamente que el partido era inconstitucional, concluyó que no representaba una amenaza significativa para el orden constitucional. En enero de 2024, el tribunal aprobó congelar la financiación estatal del NPD por seis años.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

→ Aklanon: sais
→ Cebuano: sayis
→ Tagalog: seis

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)

as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete

ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

“seis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog numbers (edit)

| | 60 | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ------------------------------------- | | ← 5 | 6 | 7 → | | Cardinal: anim Spanish cardinal: seis Ordinal: ikaanim, pang-anim Ordinal abbreviation: ika-6, pang-6 Adverbial: makaanim Multiplier: anim na ibayo Distributive: tig-anim, animan, anim-anim Restrictive: aanim Fractional: kanim, sangkanim, saikanim, kaanim, sangkaanim, ikaanim, saikaanim | | | | Tagalog Wikipedia article on 6 | | |

sais — common

Borrowed from Spanish seis, from Latin sex. Compare Cebuano sayis.

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /seˈʔis/ [sɛˈʔɪs] (dated)
- IPA(key): /saˈʔis/ [sɐˈʔɪs]
Rhymes: -is
Syllabification: se‧is

seís (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜁᜐ᜔)

six
Synonym: anim

seís (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜁᜐ᜔)

(card games) six (card)

Playing cards in Tagalog · baraha (layout · text)

alas	dos	tres	kuwatro	singko	seis	siyete

otso	nuwebe	diyes	sota	reyna, kabayo	hari	diyoker

“seis”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
“seis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 527

West Frisian numbers (edit)

From Old Frisian sex, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. However, Spanish seis is a false cognate.

(Clay) IPA(key): /sai̯s/
(Wood) IPA(key): /sɛi̯s/

seis

“seis”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

seis c (plural seizen, diminutive seiske)

“seis”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011