Word Origin Summary

Стихъ is attested in Old Church Slavonic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *steygʰ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. στίχοςAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• стих

  Russian · derived from

• stih

  Romanian · borrowed from

• stiha

  Ingrian · borrowed from

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