hew

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

tailler

couper

hacher

équarrir

façonner

modeler

se conformer

accommoder

tailler dans

assujettir

cogner

Synonymes

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

Traductions

hauen

houwen

cortar

hakken

tajar

hacken

picar

destralejar

🪓

tagliare

spaccare

yontmak

cortar

cortar com machado

bearbeiten

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hjuː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: hewen

Hérité de ancien anglais: hēawan

Appartenant à allemand: hauen

Appartenant à néerlandais: houwen

Appartenant à suédois: 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”).