The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγλυφή“carving”
- French · borrowed fromglyphe
- English todayglyph
First attested in 1727. Borrowed from French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”), from γλύφω (glúphō, “I carve, engrave”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγλυφή all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.