köken: From Middle High German seh(s)zehen, from Old High German seh(s)zehan, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Equivalent to sechs + zehn. Compare Dutch zestien, West Frisian sechstjin, English sixteen, Danish seksten.
köken: Inherited from Apabhramsa सोलह (solaha), सोळह (soḷaha), from Prakrit सोळस (soḷasa), from Vedic Sanskrit *षोळश (*ṣoḷaśa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *swáẓḍaśa.
From Middle Dutch sestien, from Old Dutch *sestēn, *sestien, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Compare West Frisian sechstjin, German sechzehn, English sixteen, Danish seksten.