whittle

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

tailler

schnitzen

labrar

beitelen

cincelar

meißeln

ciseler

buriner

schnibbeln

éplucher

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: whittel

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: þveita

Cognat amb grec antic: σείω

Heretat de anglès mitjà: whytel

Heretat de anglès antic: hwītel

Cognat amb islandès: 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.