whittle

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
2. (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
3. (figuratively, transitive) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

Sinonieme

carve

sharpen

plane

pare

chip off

chisel

grave

🪦

scrape off

hew

shave

reduce

cut

scrape

carve wood

slice

shape

make pointed

plane down

shave off

bark

trim off

chip away

chop

crossout

curtail

cut off

decrease

facet

hack

lessen

lower

polish

🇵🇱

rip

sculpt

sculpture

Vertalings

tailler

intagliare

schnitzen

labrar

lavrar

cincelar

cinzelar

meißeln

buriner

beitelen

cisellar

ciseler

entalhar

réduire

éplucher

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: whittel

Verwante met Old Norse: þveita

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: σείω

Geërf van Middle English: whytel

Geërf van Old English: hwītel

Verwante met Yslands: hvítill

In summary

From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.