Dolch

Etymology
. First attested in the mid-15th century in Upper German texts as, then also. At first mostly with weak declension. The formerly held assumption of a Slavic origin has been abandoned (older 🇨🇬 is instead a German borrowing).

The word is now mostly derived ultimately from, but the origin of the velar remains unclear. It may be due to conflation with a descendant of, which is entirely unattested in Continental West Germanic, only being found in 🇨🇬, ). Another theory links it to (ca. 1400), from, itself likely from , a diminutive of (“dagger”, mid-14th c.), likely from the Latin. Compare early 🇨🇬, ,  (modern 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) dagger