Etymology

sylphid

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Today it means: A young or little sylph. Full definition →

French sylphide
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsylphide
  2. English todaysylphid

From French sylphide. By surface analysis, sylph + -id.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.