Where does “etpela ten tri” come from?

etpela ten tri (Tok Pisin) comes from Tok Pisin tri, from English three, from Middle English thre, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

etpela ten tri (Tok Pisin): eighty-three

Definitions

  1. eighty-three

Ancestry of “etpela ten tri”, step by step

etpela ten tri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tok Pisin tri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tok Pisintrithree
2EnglishthreeA numerical value after two and before four....
3Middle Englishthrethree
4Old Englishþrīthree
5Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
6Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes

via Tok Pisin etpela ten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tok Pisinetpela ten
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes