sampu

• sampo — colloquial
• sampouo, sangpouo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• sampuo, sampuwo, sangpuo, sangpuwo — obsolete

From sampuo, from sampuwo, from older sampulo, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *sa-ŋa-puluq (“ten”). Compare Ilocano sangapulo, Bikol Central sampulo, Maranao sapolo', Malay sepuluh, Bima sampuru, and Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”). By surface analysis, sam- +‎ pu, literally “one ten”.

• Hyphenation: sam‧pu
• IPA^(key): /samˈpuʔ/, [sɐmˈpuʔ]

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sampû (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. ten

   Synonym: diyes

• To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with the (-ng) enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel or with the "na" preposition for those ending in a consonant.

  Isang saging, dalawang pinya

  Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga

• labing-

• “sampu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1156.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier