Etymology

nyayo

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Today it means: A person's precedent or example. Full definition →

Swahili nyayo ← Proto-Bantu [Term?]
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The story

  1. Proto-Bantu[Term?]
  2. Swahilinyayo
  3. English todaynyayo

Borrowed from Swahili nyayo (“footsteps, footprints”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.