sjautján

Old Norse

Old Norse numbers ^(edit)

←  16	17	18  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: sjaután, sjautján     Ordinal: sjautándi, sjautjándi

Alternative forms

• sjaután

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Compare Old English seofontīene, Old High German sibunzehan.

Numeral

sjautján

1. (cardinal number) seventeen

Descendants

• Icelandic: sautján
• Faroese: seytjan
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sytten
• Norwegian Bokmål: sytten
• Swedish: sjutton
• Danish: sytten

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sjautján”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 363; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/363 Internet Archive]