Where does “delapan puluh tujuh” come from?

delapan puluh tujuh (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 tujuh (Indonesian): eighty-seven

Definitions

  1. eighty-seven

Ancestry of “delapan puluh tujuh”, step by step

delapan puluh tujuh 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 tujuh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiantujuhseven
2Malaytujuhseven
3Proto-Malayictujuhseven
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesiantuzuqto indicate, point
5Proto-Austronesiantuzuqto point at
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