Etymology

siafu

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Today it means: An army ant. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Bantu[Term?]
  2. Swahilisiaf
  3. English todaysiafu

Borrowed from Swahili siafu, from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.