Borrowed from Malay belas. <span class="searchmatch">blaih</span> -teen (to form numbers 11 - 19)...
From Lombardic <span class="searchmatch">blaih</span>, bleih (“pale, white”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Compare German bleich (“pale, pallid”) and English bleach. IPA(key): /ˈbjak...
(“eighteen”) sembilan belas (“nineteen”) Indonesian: belas → Acehnese: <span class="searchmatch">blaih</span> → Banjarese: welas → Dairi Batak: belas → Bintulu: belas → Central Melanau:...