Where does “sepuluh pitu” come from?

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

sepuluh pitu (Malay): seventeen

Definitions

  1. seventeen

Ancestry of “sepuluh pitu”, step by step

sepuluh pitu 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 sepuluh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaysepuluhten
2Proto-MalayicsA-puluh—
3Proto-Oceanic*sa-puluq—
4Austronesian*sa-puluq—
Every word from Proto-Austroasiatic *pitu →Every word from Proto-Austronesian pitu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian pitu →