Where does “fifti” come from?

fifti (Tok Pisin) comes from English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic fimf tigiwiz — fifty.

fifti (Tok Pisin): fifty

Definitions

  1. fifty

Ancestry of “fifti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfiftyThe cardinal number occurring after forty-nine...
2Old Englishfīftiġfifty
3Proto-Germanicfimf tigiwizfifty
Every word from Proto-Germanic fimf tigiwiz →Every word from Old English fīftiġ →Every word from English fifty →