Where does “sikisti” come from?

sikisti (Tok Pisin) comes from English sixty, from Middle English sixty, from Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic sehs tigiwiz — sixty.

sikisti (Tok Pisin): sixty

Definitions

  1. sixty

Ancestry of “sikisti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsixtyThe cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine...
2Middle Englishsixty—
3Old Englishsixtiġsixty
4Proto-Germanicsehs tigiwizsixty
Every word from Proto-Germanic sehs tigiwiz →Every word from Old English sixtiġ →Every word from Middle English sixty →