Word Origin Summary

Dywʾn' is attested in Middle Persian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₂wes-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. 𒁾Sumerianderived from
3. ṭuppumAkkadianderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• диван

  Macedonian · derived from

• दीवान

  Hindi · derived from

• divan

  Romanian · derived from

• divan

  English · derived from

• dogana

  Italian · derived from

• aduana

  Hiligaynon · borrowed from

• douane

  English · borrowed from

• aduana

  Spanish · borrowed from

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