Word Origin Summary

*tsikā is attested in Proto-Albanian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• sica

  Latin · borrowed from

• sickle

  English · derived from

• sicarius

  Latin · borrowed from

• Ἰσκαριώτης

  Ancient Greek · derived from

• sica

  Italian · derived from

• Scaraoțchi

  Romanian · derived from

• Ítcariốt

  Vietnamese · derived from

• Iscariotes

  Latin · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root