י־דي د ي
y-d “hand” Proto-Semitic *yad- 'hand' named the Phoenician letter yōd, which Greek made iota, the smallest letter, and English jot. Through Western Yiddish jat the same word became Dutch slang jatten, 'paws' and then 'to pinch'.
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Proto-Semitic → Ugaritic: 1 word Phoenician → Syriac: 1 word Syriac → Arabic: 1 word Koine Greek → Old Church Slavonic: 1 word Koine Greek → Old East Slavic: 1 word Mishnaic Hebrew → Yiddish: 1 word Ancient Greek → Modern Greek: 1 word Late Latin → Spanish: 1 word Biblical Hebrew → Yiddish: 1 word Spanish → Mexican Spanish: 1 word Old East Slavic → Russian: 1 word Old Church Slavonic → Russian: 1 word Yiddish → Dutch: 1 word Biblical Hebrew → Modern Hebrew: 1 word Proto-Semitic → Phoenician: 2 words Phoenician → Ancient Greek: 2 words Ancient Greek → Koine Greek: 2 words Phoenician → Mishnaic Hebrew: 2 words Koine Greek → Late Latin: 2 words Late Latin → English: 2 words Late Latin → French: 2 words Late Latin → German: 2 words Mishnaic Hebrew → Modern Hebrew: 2 words Modern Hebrew: 3 words Modern Hebrew Proto-Semitic: 2 words Proto-Semitic Phoenician: 2 words Phoenician Ancient Greek: 2 words Ancient Greek Koine Greek: 2 words Koine Greek Mishnaic Hebrew: 2 words Mishnaic Hebrew Late Latin: 2 words Late Latin Yiddish: 2 words Yiddish English: 2 words English French: 2 words French German: 2 words German Russian: 2 words Russian Ugaritic: 1 word Ugaritic Syriac: 1 word Syriac Arabic: 1 word Arabic Old Church Slavonic: 1 word Old Church Slavonic Old East Slavic: 1 word Old East Slavic Modern Greek: 1 word Modern Greek Spanish: 1 word Spanish Biblical Hebrew: 1 word Biblical Hebrew Mexican Spanish: 1 word Mexican Spanish Dutch: 1 word Dutch Today 2 of 3 words have reached English
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Relatives outside the atlas Biblical Hebrew יָד yāḏ “hand” Biblical Hebrew יוֹד yôḏ “the letter yod” Arabic يَد yad “hand” Aramaic יְדָא yəḏāʾ “hand” Akkadian idu idu “arm, side” Modern Hebrew יָד וָשֵׁם Yad va-Shem “'a memorial and a name' (Isaiah 56:5), the Holocaust memorial”
Sources Wiktionary: Proto-Semitic *yad- Lexodus atlas entries iota, jot, jatten