Where does “faivpela ten tri” come from?

faivpela 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.

faivpela ten tri (Tok Pisin): fifty-three

Definitions

  1. fifty-three

Ancestry of “faivpela ten tri”, step by step

faivpela 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 faivpela ten

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