You might want to but Egyptian śrśw or (and more interestingly) śiśw in the mix.
What do they mean?
They mean 6. And I meant "put" rather than "but."
you talk about the false cognate shesh-seis but not sheva-seven- this is so funny if its just a coincident.
Actually, number borrowing is far from unknown: Japanese borrowed the Chinese numbers wholesale, and only uses its native numbers 1-10 in restrictive circumstances. And in the Uralic family, no number larger than six is reconstructable in Proto-Uralic; everything else is either innovation or borrowing, usually from IE.
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