Given name
Dedë
“people, tribe”
Dedë is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Albanian.
Original LatinDomenicus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dedë goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂, meaning “people, tribe.”
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Where it comes from
Dedë comes from Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin dominicus, from Latin theodorus, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, tribe”).
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Dedë’s family of names
Dedë shares a linguistic root with DED. Dedë has a conventional equivalent in the German form Dominic. Dedë has a conventional equivalent in the German form Dominique.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dedë has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Theodorussource · Latin
- Dominicussource · Latin
- DomenicusLatin
- DominicEnglish, German
- DominickGerman
- DominikGerman
- DominiqueGerman, French
- DomingoSpanish
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