whittle

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

labrar

cincelar

cortar

sacar punta con el cuchillo

tallar

desbastar

labrar madera

acepillar

labrar la madera

cortar al ras

esculpir

igualar

tajar

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

tailler

intagliare

schnitzen

lavrar

cinzelar

cisellar

ciseler

meißeln

buriner

beitelen

entalhar

réduire

éplucher

raboter

piallare

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: whittel

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: þveita

Cognado con griego antiguo: σείω

Heredado de inglés medio: whytel

Heredado de inglés antiguo: hwītel

Cognado con islandés: 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.