Where does “lapan puluh sembilan” come from?

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

lapan puluh sembilan (Malay): eighty-nine

Definitions

  1. eighty-nine

Ancestry of “lapan puluh sembilan”, step by step

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

via Malay lapan puluh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaylapan puluheighty
2Malaypuluhten
3Proto-Malayicpuluhten
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
5Proto-Austronesianpuluqten

via Malay sĕmbilan

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