The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἄβαξ“board covered with sand”
- English todayabax
From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board covered with sand”). Doublet of abacus and abaque.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄβαξ all →
abacusabac
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.