Where does “sampung libo” come from?

sampung libo (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog libo, from Malay ribu, from Proto-Malayic *ribu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu — thousand.

sampung libo (Tagalog): ten thousand

Definitions

  1. ten thousand

Ancestry of “sampung libo”, step by step

sampung libo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog libo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloglibothousand
2Malayributhousand; million
3Proto-Malayic*ribu—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀibuthousand

via Tagalog sampu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogsamputen
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu →