sextán

See also: sextan

Icelandic

Icelandic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sextán     Ordinal : sextándi

Etymology

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

Numeral

sextán

1. 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

1. (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.