scythe

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
2. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
3. The tenth Lenormand card.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To use a scythe.
2. (transitive) To cut with a scythe.
3. (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, often) To attack or injure as if cutting.

Konzepte

Sense

Sichel

abmähen

sensen

mähen

Hippe

Sense des Todes

Synonyme

sickle

mow

reap

cut

harvest

shears

small

suitability

sword

trim

billhook

cut grass

war scythe

instrument for mowing

crop

bush hook

cut down

glean

lea

shear

Übersetzungen

faux

falce

guadaña

zeis

foice

falx

falciare

gadanha

hoz

δρεπάνι

faucille

guadañar

faucher

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈsaɪð/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: sythe

Geerbt von Altenglisch: sīþe

Verwandt mit Middle Low German: sēgede

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: zicht

Verwandt mit Isländisch: sigð

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: zeis

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Sense

In summary

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.