The Greek word for "scythe" was drepanon or drepane. Xenophon mentions the use of scythe-bearing (drepanephoros) chariots in the battle of Cunaxa.
Darius I campaigned against Scythians in southeastern Europe about 513 B.C. (the campaign is described at some length in Herodotus). Their language was part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
Medieval Buddhist manuscripts have been found in Chinese Turkestan with two Indo-European languages, known as Tocharian A and Tocharian B, now extinct, that are closely related to each other and resemble the languages of Europe (the "centum" languages) more than the Indo-Iranian or Slavic languages (the "satem" languages) which were geographically closer to them.
Thw Scythians also invented Scotch, which they took into battle to fortify their scythe chariot drivers to enable the driver to steer randomly in a nonsensical pattern so as to confuse their enemies. It was the first DWI. [Driving Warrior Intoxicated].