sextán

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Icelandic

**Icelandic cardinal numbers**
< 15	16	17 >
Cardinal : sextán Ordinal : sextándi

Etymology

From Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

Numeral

sextán

sixteen; the cardinal number after fimmtán and before sautján.

Related terms

(ordinal form) sextándi m, sextánda f or n.

Old Norse

**Old Norse numbers ^(edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 15	16	17 → ^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal: sextán Ordinal: sextándi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Compare Old Saxon sehstein, Old Frisian sextīne, Old English sixtīene, Old High German sehszehan.

Numeral

sextán

(cardinal number) sixteen

Descendants

Icelandic: sextán
Faroese: sekstan
Norwegian Nynorsk: seksten
Norwegian Bokmål: seksten
Swedish: sexton
Danish: seksten

References

sextán in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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