The story
- Arabic · derived fromالفِيل“the elephant”
- Old Spanish · derived fromalfil
- Middle French · derived fromalfin
- Middle English · inherited fromawfyn
- English todayalfin
From Middle English awfyn, alphyn, aufyn, etc., from Middle French alfin, from Old Spanish alfil, arfil, from Arabic الفِيل (al-fīl, “the elephant”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.