köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old High German stein Middle High German stein German Stein From Middle High German stein, from Old High German stein, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Sabaki *i̧(ji̧)we, from Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è. The correspondences in various Swahili dialects are often irregular. In Unguja, for example, a -b- would have been expected instead of -w-. In Sabaki, cognate with Ngazidja Comorian ɓwe and Giryama iwe. Other Bantu cognates include Rwanda-Rundi ibuye and Zulu ī́tshe.