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sextán

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Icelandic

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Icelandic numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: sextán
    Ordinal: sextándi
    Ordinal abbreviation: 16.
    Fractional: sextándi

Etymology

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

Numeral

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sextán (indeclinable)

  1. sixteen

Old Norse

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Old Norse numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: sextán
    Ordinal: sextándi

Etymology

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

Numeral

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sextán

  1. (cardinal number) sixteen

Descendants

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

References

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