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Another titbit from my new dictionary is that the desh in Bangladesh is related to Indonesian desa meaning village or rural, both coming from the Sanskrit word for place or country, deca (the c has a cedilla), which is ultimately related to our words decimal and digit.
Sanskrit is one of the sources for Indonesian high-falutin' terms, like Latin or Greek in English. The Sanskrit-derived combining forms for numbers (like bi, quin, etc. in English) from 1-8 are:
asta, catur, dwi, heksa, panca, sapta, tri, tunggal.
I've put them in alphabetical order. Your (not very difficult) challenge is to put them into numerical order.
Bingley
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