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Where does “teddan” come from?

teddan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic tadjaną, from Proto-Indo-European dāy- — to divide, split, section, part, separate; to...

Ancestry of “teddan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*taddjan—
2Proto-GermanictadjanąTo strew, to scatter; To dung, to manure
3Proto-Indo-Europeandāy-to divide, split, section, part, separate; to...
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