Where does “tigo puluah” come from?

tigo puluah (Minangkabau) comes from Minangkabau puluah, from Proto-Malayic puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq, from Proto-Austronesian puluq — ten.

tigo puluah (Minangkabau): thirty

Definitions

  1. thirty

Ancestry of “tigo puluah”, step by step

tigo puluah traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Minangkabau puluah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Minangkabaupuluahten
2Proto-Malayicpuluhten
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
4Proto-Austronesianpuluqten

via Minangkabau tigo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Minangkabautigothree
Every word from Proto-Austronesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq →Every word from Proto-Malayic puluh →