Where does “lapan puluh” come from?

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

lapan puluh (Malay): eighty

Definitions

  1. eighty

Ancestry of “lapan puluh”, step by step

lapan puluh traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay puluh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaypuluhten
2Proto-Malayicpuluhten
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
4Proto-Austronesianpuluqten

via Malay lapan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaylapaneight; Nonstandard spelling of delapan
2MalaydĕlapanObsolete spelling of delapan
3Proto-Malayicdua(ʔ) alap-aneight

Words derived from “lapan puluh”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayic puluh →