hew

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
2. (transitive) To shape; to form.
3. (US, transitive) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

Noun

Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

Noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Hue; colour.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Shape; form.

Sinonieme

chop

cut

hack

carve

cut down

cleave

lop

hew out

chisel

mangle

whittle

split

slash

mow

chop up

trim

adze

beat

fell

hoe

kill

🔪🩸👤

mince

rend

rip

saw

🪚

tear

disfigure

divide

excavate

facet

whomp

grave

🪦

chase

hash

#️⃣

carve out

hit

work over

break asunder

break up

lumber

break

maul

fell a tree

bludgeon

mutilate

pare

paste

peel

pick

⛏️

pierce

Vertalings

hauen

tailler

houwen

tajar

cortar

hacken

hakken

picar

tagliare

destralejar

🪓

couper

spaccare

cortar

cortar com machado

yontmak

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hjuː/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: hewen

Geërf van Old English: hēawan

Verwante met Duits: hauen

Verwante met Nederlands: houwen

Verwante met Sweeds: hugga

In summary

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”).
Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”). Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).