Where does “fady” come from?

fady (English) comes from English fade, from Middle English fade, from Middle Dutch vade, from Old French fade, from Vulgar Latin fatidus, from Latin fatuus, from Latin fātus, from Latin for — to speak, to be talking.

fady (English): faded; A system of taboos in the traditional...

Definitions

  1. faded; A system of taboos in the traditional...

Ancestry of “fady”, step by step

fady traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via English fade

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfadeWeak; insipid; tasteless
2Middle Englishfade
3Middle Dutchvadeweak, faint, limp
4Old Frenchfadeweak, witless
5Vulgar Latinfatidus
6Latinfatuusfoolish, silly, simple; stupid; insipid,...
7Latinfātusspoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc
8Latinfor"defective"; I speak, talk, say
9Proto-Italicfāōrspeak
10Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰéh₂tito speak, to be talking

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanesea dream
8Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese

via Malagasy fady

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malagasyfadytaboo, fady
2Proto-Austronesian*paliSitaboo; ritual restriction
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti