hew

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

destralejar

🪓

tallar

cisellar

tallar a ran

podar

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

tailler

hauen

houwen

hakken

tajar

hacken

cortar

picar

spaccare

couper

tagliare

yontmak

cortar

cortar com machado

kappen

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/hjuː/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: hewen

Heretat de anglès antic: hēawan

Cognat amb alemany: hauen

Cognat amb neerlandès: houwen

Cognat amb suec: 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”).