Cognates include Edo ọghẹdẹ and Igbo ògèdè, Igbo ọ̀gèdè. This may be reconstructed to Proto-Yoruboid if such a term existed for an older food crop not bananas. Bananas reached West Africa centuries after the Proto-Yoruboid language had dispersed, but may have come in contact with Proto-Yoruba speakers. Thus, it is unclear if this term was borrowed and then transversed the many people groups as they traded and came into contact with the banana (see the term kòkódìà), or if a semantic shift occurred (see the term ọkà).