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Already in Late Mycenaean Greek (Ta-716 from Pylos), attested in the dual 𐀥𐀯𐀟𐀁 (qi-si-pe-e, two swords) (mostly ideographically as 𐃉). Probably of non-Greek origin, likely borrowed from Egyptian zft (sword, knife).[1] If not, perhaps both are from an Old Semitic saïf or sêf,[2] or from a Libyan or "Sea Peoples" word.[3]

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ξῐ́φος (xíphosn (genitive ξῐ́φεος or ξῐ́φους); third declension

  1. sword, the short, straight, double-edged sword of the Iron Age and Classical Antiquity.
    1. the sword-shaped bone of the cuttlefish
      1. swordfish
    2. corn-flag (Gladiolus italicus)
      Synonym: ξίφιον (xíphion)

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  • Greek: ξίφος (xífos)
  • Mariupol Greek: пси́фос (psífos)

References edit

  1. ^ Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ Johannes Dümichen, Historische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmäler vol. 1, Leipzig (1867), 26-27.
  3. ^ John Linton Myres, Who were the Greeks?, University of California Press, 1930, p. 590

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From the Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos, s-stem).

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ξίφος (xífosn

  1. sword

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