Where does “puluh ribu” come from?

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

puluh ribu (Malay): ten thousand

Definitions

  1. ten thousand

Ancestry of “puluh ribu”, step by step

puluh ribu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian puluh

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

via Indonesian ribu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianributhousand; million
2Malayributhousand; million
3Proto-Malayic*ribu—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀibuthousand

Words derived from “puluh ribu”

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