Where does “ファイ” come from?

ファイ (Japanese) comes from English phi, from Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ — phi, the name for the twenty-second letter Φ, φ...

Ancestry of “ファイ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishphiΦ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern...
2Latinphi
3Ancient Greekφεῖphi, the name for the twenty-second letter Φ, φ...
Every word from Ancient Greek φεῖEvery word from Latin phiEvery word from English phi