Etymology

adze

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Today it means: A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. Full definition →

Middle English adse ← Old English adesa ← Proto-Germanic *adisô
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*h₃edʰḗs
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*adisô
  3. Old English · inherited fromadesa
  4. Middle English · inherited fromadse
  5. English todayadze

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).

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