Etymograph

English

sixth

Sixth comes from earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sehstô1reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150siexta1
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sixte1
  4. English1500–presentsixt1
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1611sixth1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sixth
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sehstôWiktionary, English sixthreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150siextaWiktionary, English sixth
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sixteWiktionary, English sixth
  4. English1500–presentsixtWiktionary, English sixth
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1611sixthWiktionary, English sixth. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had…”

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Today it means

adj The ordinal form of the number six.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sixth”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *sehstô / sixth