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àj.
to make sixteen individuals
Etymology
< NLem anr‑a
< LMLem, MLem anr‑yl
< Ghe asʱ‑ᴛʳ‑ə̄ /anr̠ɯː/ ‘sixteen’, lit. ‘zero-one’, compound of
Ghe asʱ‑ə̄ /anɯː/ ‘zero’
—and—
Ghe ᴛʳ‑ə̄ /r̠ɯː/ ‘one’
The Gheans used the hexadecimal number system, and they appear to have written numbers starting with the unit digit, so 16decimal = 10hexadecimal = ‘01’ in Ghean digits.