Malay for two: dua

Today I have been thinking about my childhood in Singapore nearly 80 years ago. Something that has puzzled me over the years has been the Malay word for 2, dua, which looks remarkably like the Latin word for 2. I suppose that it's no more than a chance similarity, as it's hard to imagine that such a basic word should have been borrowed from a European language. But does anyone know?
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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.