Etymology

cedi

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Today it means: The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵. Full definition →

Akan sedi
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The story

  1. Akan · borrowed fromsedi“cowrie shell”
  2. English todaycedi

Ultimately from Fante Akan sedi (“cowrie shell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.