Where does “cipayo” come from?
cipayo (Spanish) comes from Portuguese sipaio, from Urdu سپاہی, from Classical Persian سپاهی, from Persian سپاه, from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwáHdʰaH, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwéh₁-dʰ-o-h₁.
cipayo (Spanish): sepoy
Ancestry of “cipayo”, step by step