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Where does “ħdax-il” come from?
ħdax-il (Maltese) comes from Maltese -il, from Arabic عَشَر — ten.
Ancestry of “ħdax-il”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Maltese
-il
Used to form the attributive form of cardinal numbers 11 to 19
2
Arabic
عَشَر
ten
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