Where does “നാല്പത്” come from?

നാല്പത് (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam നാൽ, from Malayalam പത്ത്, from Malayalam നാല്, from Old Swedish nāl, from Old Norse nál, from Proto-Germanic nēþlō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₁- — to spin (thread), to sew.

നാല്പത് (Malayalam): forty

Definitions

  1. forty

Ancestry of “നാല്പത്”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamനാൽ—
2Malayalamപത്ത്ten (numeral: ൰)
3Malayalamനാല്four (numeral: ൪)
4Old Swedishnālneedle
5Old Norsenálneedle
6Proto-Germanicnēþlōneedle
7Proto-Indo-European(s)neh₁-to spin (thread), to sew

Words derived from “നാല്പത്”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic nēþlō →Every word from Old Norse nál →