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Where does “empat belas” come from?

empat belas (Indonesian) comes from Malay empat belas, from Malay empat, from Proto-Malayic əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian əpat, from Proto-Austronesian Səpat — four.

empat belas (Indonesian): fourteen

Definitions

  1. fourteen

Ancestry of “empat belas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayempat belasfourteen
2Malayempatfour
3Proto-Malayicəmpatfour
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianəpatfour
5Proto-AustronesianSəpatfour
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