átján

== Icelandic == === Alternative forms === áttján (archaic) === Etymology === From Old Norse átján, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with the Swedish arton, Danish atten, English eighteen and German achtzehn. === Numeral === átján (indeclinable) eighteen ==== Derived terms ==== einn af átján nú tekur átján yfir, nú kastar átján yfir sjá upp á átján augum == Old Norse == === Alternative forms === áttján — older form === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Compare Old English eahtatīene, Old High German ahtozehan. === Numeral === átján (cardinal number) eighteen ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: átján Faroese: átjan Norwegian Nynorsk: atjan, attan Old Swedish: atertān, adherton, attartān, atartān, attān, adhærtonSwedish: aderton, arton Old Danish: attæn Danish: atten Norwegian Bokmål: atten → Norwegian Nynorsk: atten → Translingual: atto- → Catalan: atto- → Danish: atto- → Dutch: atto- → English: atto- → Finnish: atto- → French: atto- → Norwegian Bokmål: atto- Elfdalian: aðertǫ, åttjǫ, artǫ Gutnish: attn, adatn, atretten === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “átján”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 39; also available at the Internet Archive