Where does “ξίφος” come from?

ξίφος (Ancient Greek) comes from Egyptian zft, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.

ξίφος (Ancient Greek): sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of...

Definitions

  1. sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of...

Ancestry of “ξίφος”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Egyptianzftsword; knife
2Egyptian-tUsed to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An...
3Proto-Afro-Asiatic-t—

Words derived from “ξίφος”

Every word from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t →Every word from Egyptian -t →Every word from Egyptian zft →