Where does “ഒരുന്നൂറ്” come from?

ഒരുന്നൂറ് (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam ഒരു, from Proto-Dravidian oru — one.

ഒരുന്നൂറ് (Malayalam): one hundred (numeral: ൱)

Definitions

  1. one hundred (numeral: ൱)

Ancestry of “ഒരുന്നൂറ്”, step by step

ഒരുന്നൂറ് traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam ഒരു

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamഒരുone
2Proto-Dravidianoruone

via Malayalam നൂറ്

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamനൂറ്hundred (numeral: ൱)
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