scythe

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.

Từ đồng nghĩa

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

Bản dịch

Sense

faux

falce

guadaña

zeis

foice

falx

falciare

gadanha

hoz

faucille

faucher

δρεπάνι

guadañar

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈsaɪð/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: sythe

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh cổ: sīþe

Có liên quan đến Middle Low German: sēgede

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Hà Lan: zicht

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Iceland: sigð

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Hà Lan: zeis

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Đức: 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.