Where does “if” come from?
if (Old French) comes from Frankish īw, from Proto-Germanic īwaz, from Proto-Germanic īwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- — yew.
if (Old French): yew; yew wood
Definitions
- yew; yew wood
Ancestry of “if”, step by step
if traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.