different between lucky vs seven

English

Pronunciation

• l?k??, IPA^(key): /?l?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Etymology

From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck +? -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, forntunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”).

Adjective

lucky (comparative luckier or more lucky, superlative luckiest or most lucky)

1. (of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.

   Synonyms: fortunate, successful; see also Thesaurus:lucky
2. Producing, or resulting in, good fortune

   Synonyms: favorable, auspicious, favorable, fortunate; see also Thesaurus:auspicious

Derived terms

Translations

Translingual

Etymology

From English seven

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sev.n]

Numeral

seven

1. Code word for the digit 7 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word setteseven

References

English

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: VII
• sev'n

Etymology

From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *sept?? (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ???? (heptá, “seven”), Russian ???? (sem?), Sanskrit ?????? (saptán).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?n/. In casual speech also ? /?sebm/ (not before a vowel sound).
• Rhymes: -?v?n
• Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)

Numeral

seven

1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••).
2. Describing a group or set with seven elements.

Usage notes

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for example?

• Sun and moon set in the heaven, with stars, and the planets seven. (The Towneley plays)

Related terms

• seventh

Translations

See seven/translations § Numeral.

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

• Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés

Bislama

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Breton

Adjective

seven

1. courteous

Dutch Low Saxon

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z??v?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.

Numeral

s?ven

1. seven

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven
• Limburgish: zeve
• Zealandic: zeven

Etymology 2

From s?ve +? -en.

Verb

s?ven

1. to sift, to sieve

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven

Further reading

• “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page IV

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English seofon

Alternative forms

• seofen, seoven, sevene, ceven, sevyn, sewyn

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?sø?v?n/, /?sœv?n/
• IPA^(key): /?s??v?n/, /?s?v?n/

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Related terms

• sevenefold
• seventene
• sevenþe
• sevenyght

Descendants

• English: seven
• Scots: seiven, seeven (obsolete sevin, sewin)
• Yola: zeven

Etymology 2

From Old English swefn.

Noun

seven

1. Alternative form of sweven

Scots

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of seiven

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seven]
• Hyphenation: sev?en

Adjective

seven (comparative daha seven, superlative en seven)

1. loving, affectionate

Related terms

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek

Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

Declension

Antonyms

• sevmeyen