Where does “seksten” come from?
seksten (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Bokmål seksten, from Danish seksten, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic sehstehun, from Proto-Germanic tehun, from Proto-Indo-European déḱm̥t — ten.
seksten (Norwegian Nynorsk): sixteen; definite singular of sekst
Definitions
- sixteen; definite singular of sekst
Ancestry of “seksten”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | seksten | sixteen; definite singular of sekst |
| 2 | Danish | seksten | sixteen |
| 3 | Old Norse | sextán | sixteen |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sehstehun | sixteen |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | tehun | ten |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | déḱm̥t | ten |