akjan
See also: akjån
Manchu
Romanization
akjan
- Romanization of ᠠᡴᠵᠠᠨ
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse áttján, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun.
Numeral
akjan
- (dialectal)eighteen
- Synonym: atten
- 1886, Litleré, Mons, Forteljingar, Stavanger: Norskmålets bokhandel, page 21:
- Ho hadde ikkje voret nerkone i akjan år fyr inkjevetta!
- She hadn't been a midwife for eighteen years for nothing!
References
- Ivar Aasen (1850), “attan”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000