The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἐκεχειρία“armistice, truce”
- English todayekecheiria
From Ancient Greek ἐκεχειρία (ekekheiría, “armistice, truce”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “hold back”) and χείρ (kheír, “hand”), with kh > k by Grassmann's Law.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.