sextán

See also: sextan

Icelandic

Icelandic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: sextán     Ordinal: sextándi     Ordinal abbreviation: 16.     Fractional: sextándi

Etymology

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

Numeral

sextán (indeclinable)

1. sixteen

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

1. (cardinal number) sixteen

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sextán”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 358; also available at the Internet Archive