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(Engels)

(declension-5) sharp edge or point
(declension-5) battle line
(declension-5) battle, engagement
(Late-Latin, declension-5) steel
(declension-5) sharpness of sight, keeness of a glance
(declension-5) the pupil of an eye
(declension-5) a fixed look
(declension-5) acuteness of mind
(declension-5) a verbal contest

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[ˈa.ki.eːs]

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). By surface analysis, aceō + -iēs. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “point, pointed object”), ἀκή (akḗ, “point”) and Proto-Germanic *agjō (whence English edge). See also word origin of ace.