Etymology

hachereau

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Today it means: a cleaver, similar to an ax but with a wider cutting edge Full definition →

French hacher ← Proto-Germanic *hakkōną ← Proto-Indo-European *keg-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*keg-
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hakkōną“to chop; hack”
  3. French · borrowed fromhacher
  4. English todayhachereau

From French hacher, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchhacher all →

hash

Proto-Germanic*hakkōną all →

hackerhatch

Proto-Indo-European*keg- all →

hackerhakeháček

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.