Where does “onosefulu” come from?

onosefulu (Samoan) comes from Samoan ono, from Proto-Polynesian ono, from Proto-Oceanic onom, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian onəm, from Turkish önem, from Turkish -im, from Ottoman Turkish م, from Arabic م.

onosefulu (Samoan): sixty

Definitions

  1. sixty

Ancestry of “onosefulu”, step by step

onosefulu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Samoan ono

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Samoanonosix
2Proto-Polynesianonosix
3Proto-Oceaniconomsix
4Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianonəmsix
5Turkishönemimportance
6Turkish-imFirst-person singular possessive suffix denoting...
7Ottoman Turkishمfirst-person singular possessive suffix;...
8Arabicمa prefix used to create nouns of place; a prefix...
9Proto-Semiticšamaʿ-

via Samoan sefulu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Samoansefuluten
Every word from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-Every word from Arabic مEvery word from Turkish -im