köken: Uncertain. First attested in the mid-15th century in Upper German texts as Dolch, then also Dollich, Tolch. At first mostly with weak declension (dem Dolchen). The formerly held assumption of a Slavic origin has been abandoned (older Czech tulich is instead a German borrowing). The word is now mostly derived ultimately from Latin dolo (“pike, dagger”), but the origin of the velar remains unclear.…
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion, “handbook, dagger”); if inherited, the expected form would be *χειρίδι (*cheirídi), *χρίδι (*chrídi).
köken: From Middle Low German dolk, from Old Saxon *dalk, from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰalg-, *dʰalk-.
köken: Etymology tree Middle Persian [Term?] Classical Persian خَنْجَر (xanjar)bor. Turkicbor. Old East Slavic кончарь (končarĭ) Russian кинжа́л (kinžál)bor. Polish kindżał Borrowed from Russian кинжа́л (kinžál). Doublet of handżar.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀭𑀻 (kaṭṭārī), from a declined form of Sanskrit कर्त्तृ (karttṛ, “one that cuts off”). Cognate with Assamese কটাৰী (kotari), Marathi कट्यार (kaṭyār).
köken: tika- + -ri, perhaps a blend of two now obsolete words tikaveitsi and takari; ultimately thus perhaps a blend of Old Swedish stikämäz and Old Swedish [Term?] (compare dialectal Swedish daggare).
köken: Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *terä (“cutting edge, peak, tip”), though ő is unexpected. Tálos (1993) proposes derivation from Proto-Iranian *tigra-, compare e.g. Persian تیر.