Where does “empat puluh sembilan” come from?
empat puluh sembilan (Malay) comes from Malay empat puluh, from Proto-Malayic əmpat puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian əpat puluq, from Proto-Austronesian Səpat puluq.
empat puluh sembilan (Malay): forty-nine
Ancestry of “empat puluh sembilan”, step by step