Where does “pitu puluh” come from?

pitu puluh (Malay) comes from Malay pitu, from Proto-Malayic pitu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian pitu, from Proto-Austronesian pitu, from Proto-Austroasiatic *pitu.

pitu puluh (Malay): seventy

Definitions

  1. seventy

Ancestry of “pitu puluh”, step by step

pitu puluh traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay pitu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaypituseven
2Proto-Malayicpituseven
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpituseven
4Proto-Austronesianpituseven
5Proto-Austroasiatic*pitu—

via Malay puluh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaypuluhten
2Proto-Malayicpuluhten
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
4Proto-Austronesianpuluqten
Every word from Proto-Austroasiatic *pitu →Every word from Proto-Austronesian pitu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian pitu →