The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sehstehun
- Old English · inherited fromsixtīene
- Middle English · inherited fromsextene
- English todaysixteen
Inherited from Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.