Where does “teti” come from?
teti (Tok Pisin) comes from English thirty, from Middle English thirty, from Old English þritig, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
teti (Tok Pisin): thirty
Ancestry of “teti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | thirty | The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine... |
| 2 | Middle English | thirty | — |
| 3 | Old English | þritig | thirty |
| 4 | Old English | þrī | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | þrīʀ | three |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | þrīz | three |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |