Etymology

pesewa

pe·se·wa
P3E1S1E1W4A1

Today it means: In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. Full definition →

Akan pέsεwa
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Akan · derived frompέsεwa“penny, penny's worth of gold dust”
  2. English todaypesewa

From Twi Akan pέsεwa (“penny, penny's worth of gold dust”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.