Word: seven

Language: English

Meaning: The word for the number between six and eight. The count of the number of bars at right: /// / ///

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Related word (language) {meaning in English}

sebe (Akkadian) {seven}

zazpi (Basque) {seven}

yeti (Chagatai) {seven}

seitse (Estonian) {seven}

semph (Etruscan) {seven}

sjey (Faroese) {seven}

seitsemän (Finnish) {seven}

sept (French) {seven}

sieben (German) {seven}

sie-biši (Golo) {seven}

šeiččemen (Karelian) {seven}

sattē (Kurukh) {seven}

siti (On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading, in the Latin alphabet)) {seven}

soba (Samo Toma) {seven}

siete (Spanish) {seven}

yette (Uyghur) {seven}

sabʻah (Yemeni Arabic) {seven}

Note that this list includes languages across the most distant language families according to Ruhlen's classification (1994), such as a Niger-Congo (Samo Toma) and Altaic, suggesting that the cognate for seven was probably in the original protolanguage.

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