Word Origin Summary

Dia is attested in Guinea-Bissau Creole. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. diaPortuguesederived from
2. diēsLatininherited from
3. diaPortugueseinherited from
4. *djēmProto-Italicinherited from
5. *dyḗwsProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
6. *dīaVulgar Latininherited from

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