Where does “Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19” come from?
Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (Navajo) comes from English COVID-19, from Translingual COVID-19, from Translingual COVID, from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from Old French eise — in.
Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (Navajo): COVID-19
Definitions
- COVID-19
Ancestry of “Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19”, step by step
Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English COVID-19
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | COVID-19 | COVID-19 disease |
| 2 | Translingual | COVID-19 | A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| 3 | Translingual | COVID | A coronavirus disease |
| 4 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 5 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 6 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 7 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 8 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 9 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 10 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 11 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Navajo nitsaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Navajo | nitsaa | it is big, large, huge |