Etymology Explorer
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Where does “sadziwa” come from?
sadziwa (Chichewa) comes from Turkic -sa-, from Finnish -isä — Front vowel variant of -isa.
Ancestry of “sadziwa”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Turkic
-sa-
—
2
Finnish
-isä
Front vowel variant of -isa
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