Where does “delapan puluh sembilan” come from?

delapan puluh sembilan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian delapan puluh, from Indonesian puluh, from Malay puluh, from Proto-Malayic puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq, from Proto-Austronesian puluq — ten.

delapan puluh sembilan (Indonesian): eighty-nine

Definitions

  1. eighty-nine

Ancestry of “delapan puluh sembilan”, step by step

delapan puluh sembilan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian delapan puluh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiandelapan puluheighty
2Indonesianpuluhten
3Malaypuluhten
4Proto-Malayicpuluhten
5Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
6Proto-Austronesianpuluqten

via Indonesian sembilan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiansembilannine
2MalaysĕmbilanObsolete spelling of sembilan
3Proto-Malayicəsa(ʔ) ambil-annine
Every word from Proto-Austronesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayic puluh →