Talk:Makhaira/@comment-74.197.105.104-20170919214025

In modern Greek maxi or machi is battle or fight, xairi or chairi is hand, this leads me to think machi + xairi = hand + fight or battle as in 'hand to hand combat' makes it simply a hand fighting weapon, kopis a 'chopper', xiphos 'pierce light' (so sharp a point) all seem much more 'defined by name', methinks the maxaira was the seax of the era. H tan h epi tas!