Where does “bilangan” come from?

bilangan (Indonesian) comes from Malay bilangan, from Malay bilang, from Proto-Austronesian *bilaŋ — to count, to calculate.

bilangan (Indonesian): sum

Definitions

  1. sum

Ancestry of “bilangan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaybilangannumber abstract entity
2Malaybilangto say; to talk; to count
3Proto-Austronesian*bilaŋto count, to calculate
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