Where does “qift” come from?
qift (Albanian) comes from Albanian qiftër, from Byzantine Greek ξιφτέρι, from Latin accipiter, from Latin accipio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
qift (Albanian): kite
Ancestry of “qift”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Albanian | qiftër | — |
| 2 | Byzantine Greek | ξιφτέρι | — |
| 3 | Latin | accipiter | hawk, merlin; a rapacious man |
| 4 | Latin | accipio | I receive, accept, take; I hear , learn , learn;... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |