Where does “spada” come from?

spada (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic spadô, from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-.

Ancestry of “spada”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspadôspade
2Proto-Indo-Europeansph₂-dʰ-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sph₂-dʰ-Every word from Proto-Germanic spadô