Where does “dəfnə” come from?
dəfnə (Azerbaijani) comes from Old Anatolian Turkish دفنی, from Greek δάφνη, from Ancient Greek Δάφνη, from Ancient Greek δάφνη, from Ancient Greek η, from Phoenician 𐤇, from Egyptian ?.
dəfnə (Azerbaijani): laurel (Laurus gen. et spp.)
Definitions
- laurel (Laurus gen. et spp.)
Ancestry of “dəfnə”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Anatolian Turkish | دفنی | — |
| 2 | Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay; bay, bay leaf; victory, triumph |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Δάφνη | Daphne |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | δάφνη | laurel, bay |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | η | Lower-case eta, the seventh letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was ἦτα and it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel:. It is often transliterated as either e or i. It is preceded by ζ and followed by θ |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤇 | het; heth |
| 7 | Egyptian | ? | — |