Where does “ʻumikūmālua” come from?

ʻumikūmālua (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian lua, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian rua, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian rua, from Proto-Polynesian rua, from Proto-Oceanic rua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian duha, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian duha, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian duha — two.

ʻumikūmālua (Hawaiian): twelve

Definitions

  1. twelve

Ancestry of “ʻumikūmālua”, step by step

ʻumikūmālua traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hawaiian lua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianluatwo; second; double
2Proto-Eastern Polynesianrua—
3Proto-Nuclear Polynesianrua—
4Proto-Polynesianruatwo
5Proto-Oceanicruatwo
6Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianduha—
7Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianduha—
8Proto-Malayo-Polynesianduhatwo
9Proto-Austronesian*duha—
10Proto-AustronesianduSatwo

via Hawaiian ʻumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hawaiianʻumiten, tenth
2Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*kumi—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian duSa →