Where does “Maledivies” come from?

Maledivies (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans ies.

Maledivies (Afrikaans): Maldivian of, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language

Definitions

  1. Maldivian of, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language

Ancestry of “Maledivies”, step by step

Maledivies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Afrikaans ies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Afrikaansies

via Afrikaans Maledive

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaansMaledive
Every word from Afrikaans ies