whittle

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

lavrar

cinzelar

entalhar

esculpir

facetar

partir

picar

rachar

talhar

aplainar

acepilhar

cortar

cortar com machado

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

tailler

schnitzen

intagliare

labrar

cincelar

cisellar

ciseler

meißeln

buriner

beitelen

réduire

éplucher

raboter

piallare

schnibbeln

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: whittel

Cognato com nórdico arcaico: þveita

Cognato com grego arcaico: σείω

Herdado de inglês médio: whytel

Herdado de inglês arcaico: hwītel

Cognato com islandês: 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.