Where does “tif” come from?
tif (Hausa) comes from French tube, from Latin tubus, from Latin tuba — A long trumpet over 1 meter in length; tube.
tif (Hausa): inner tube
Ancestry of “tif”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | tube | pipe; tube; a hit |
| 2 | Latin | tubus | tube, pipe; trumpet used at sacrifices |
| 3 | Latin | tuba | A long trumpet over 1 meter in length; tube |