Where does “spahi” come from?
spahi (French) comes from Turkish sipahi, from Ottoman Turkish سپاهی, from Persian سپاهی, from Persian سپاه, from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwáHdʰaH, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwéh₁-dʰ-o-h₁.
spahi (French): A spahi
Ancestry of “spahi”, step by step
Words derived from “spahi”