akjan

See also: akjån

Manchu

Romanization

akjan

  1. Romanization of ᠠᡴᠵᠠᠨ

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse áttján, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun.

Numeral

akjan

  1. (dialectal) eighteen
    Synonym: atten
    • 1886, Mons Litleré, 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 (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
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