Word Origin Summary

Indayi is attested in Southern Ndebele. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *daugōProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. dyeEnglishborrowed from
3. dēahEnglishinherited from
4. *dʰewh₂-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
5. deienMiddle Englishinherited from
6. deieMiddle Englishinherited from
7. dēagianEnglishinherited from

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