fjórtán

Icelandic

Icelandic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: fjórtán     Ordinal: fjórtándi     Ordinal abbreviation: 14.     Fractional: fjórtándi

Etymology

From Old Norse fjórtán, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun.

Numeral

fjórtán (indeclinable)

1. fourteen

Old Norse

Old Norse numbers ^(edit)

←  13	14	15  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: fjórtán, fjúrtán, fjǫgurtán     Ordinal: fjórtándi

Alternative forms

• fjúrtán, fjǫgurtán

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Compare Old Saxon fiuwartein, Old Frisian fiūwertīne, Old English feowertīene, Old High German fiorzehan, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (fidwortaihun).

Numeral

fjórtán

1. (cardinal number) fourteen

Descendants

• Icelandic: fjórtán
• Faroese: fjúrtan
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjorten
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjorten
• Old Swedish: fiughurtan, fiughertān
  • Swedish: fjorton
• Old Danish: fiughærtæn
  • Danish: fjorten

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fjórtán”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 139; also available at the Internet Archive