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8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
originLearned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), from सु- (su-, “good, well”) + अस्ति (asti), a verbal abstract of the root of the verb "to be", स्वस्ति (svasti) thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". First attestation in English in 1871, a Sanskritism that replaced the Grecian term…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- wakas 12
- kawa 11
- kaws 11
- skaw 11
- waka 11
- saktis 10
- awk 10
- kaw 10
- awaits 9
- tiswas 9