Can anyone explain where the word "if" was origanated from?

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Online Etymology Dictionary

if
Old.English. gif pronounced "yif", probably originally from an oblique case of a noun meaning "doubt" (cf. O.H.G. iba, O.N. if "doubt").
Iffy is first attested 1937 in Amer.Eng.; originally associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Origin: before 900; Middle English: var. of yif, Old English: gif, gef; akin to Old Norse: ef - if, Goth: ibai - whether, Old High German: iba - condition, stipulation.

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