Where does “kalimmen” come from?

kalimmen (Mokilese) comes from Mokilese limmen, from Mokilese -men — Classifier suffix used to form the numerals used to count animate nouns.

kalimmen (Mokilese): ordinal form of jilmen; fifth

Definitions

  1. ordinal form of jilmen; fifth

Ancestry of “kalimmen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Mokileselimmenthe numeral five
2Mokilese-menClassifier suffix used to form the numerals used to count animate nouns
Every word from Mokilese -men →Every word from Mokilese limmen →