sjaután

Old Norse

Old Norse numbers (edit)
 ←  16 17 18  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: sjaután, sjautján
    Ordinal: sjautándi, sjautjándi

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Numeral

sjaután

  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) “sjaután”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 363; also available at the Internet Archive
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