Where does “واحد وعشرين” come from?

واحد وعشرين (South Levantine Arabic) comes from Arabic واحد وعشرون, from Arabic وَ, from Semitic *wa.

واحد وعشرين (South Levantine Arabic): twenty-one

Definitions

  1. twenty-one

Ancestry of “واحد وعشرين”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicواحد وعشرونtwenty-one
2Arabicوَand
3Semitic*wa—
Every word from Semitic *wa →Every word from Arabic وَ →Every word from Arabic واحد وعشرون →