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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.