Etymograph

English

adive

Adive comes from Spanish adive, and goes back to Arabic الذِّئْب.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentالذِّئْبaḏ-ḏiʔb
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentadive
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1830same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentالذِّئْبaḏ-ḏiʔb
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentadive
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1830same form

Earliest quotation: 1830, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, The Natural History of Quadrupeds: “We are uncertain whether these two names denote animals…”

Every English word from Arabic الذِّئْب

Today it means

noun The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic الذِّئْب / adive

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