there is a name called Kadimu bay in Siaya, kenya. However, there is also a historical figure called Dimu who seems to be related to the Luo. What is the link between the Egypt Dimu and the Kenya Kadimu?
1) The Semitic root hdm means "to overthrow"
–Aramaic hadama, Eth. dahmama, Egyptian ha-d-mu.
The Egyptian word hadoma means "throne/ footstool"
–Demotic htm
Kadimu is Ethiopic Semitic for "first."
2) Kadimu is also a Swahili word.
Here's a line of Swahili poetry:
Yallah mwenyi ezi / mola wa kadimu
Allah, I confess me, Eternal Lord, I pray
3) As far as the Luo Dimu goes, the Luo spoke a Nilotic language.
Dimu means to descend in Nilotic.
Very widely, in Eastern Bantu, ancestors or spirits of the dead are referred to by the common term, dimu , which is probably proto-Bantu.
Given the timeline and location of all 3 of these things, I don't see any apparent connection. Aside from the surface similarity of how these words sound, what makes you think that these three things are related?
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