English Wiktionary account
Source-reportedMeaning: “The crown has become small”
From adé (“royalty, crown”) + dì (“to become”) + ẹ̀wẹ́ (“small, thin”), literally “The crown has become small”, or a- (“agent prefix”) + dé (“to arrive”) + dì (“small, thin”) + ẹ̀wẹ́, literally “The one arrives in a small form”
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- Wiktionary: AdedẹwẹCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

