köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der. Proto-Germanic *matiz Proto-West Germanic *mati Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Germanic *sahsą Proto-West Germanic *sahs Proto-West Germanic *matisahs Old High German mezzisahs Middle High German messer German Messer From Middle High German messer, mezzer, from Old High German mezzir, mezzeres, mezzirahs, mezzisahs (“knife”), from Proto-West…
köken: Inherited from Old French coutel, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter (“knife, plough blade”); cognate with Italian coltello. Not related to couper.
aile: à couper au couteau, à couteaux tirés, couteau à beurre, couteau à cran d'arrêt, couteau à fromage, couteau à fruit, couteau à huîtres, couteau à pain, couteau à palette, couteau à poisson
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish cuchiello, from Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter. Cognate with English cutlery. Compare English cutlass also.
aile: acuchillar, cuchillada, cuchillazo, cuchillería, cuchillero, cuchillito, cuchillón, en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo, hierba de cuchillo, mango de cuchillo
köken: Possibly either borrowed from Parthian [script needed] (tyg /tēγ/, “blade; sword, lance”); or from Middle Persian [script needed] (tyh /tēx/, “sharp edge, ridge; ray”). Akin to Old Armenian տէգ (tēg), an Iranian borrowing.
to cut (to split using a sharp instrument) · to cut (to trim or fashion nails, hair, grass, or something similar) · to fell; to cut down; to chop down (to drop a tree by cutting its trunk)
çekim: geçmiş cortei · ortaç cortado · şimdiki corta
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cortar, from Latin curtāre (“to shorten”).
to cut; to perform an incision (compare klippa, used for cutting with scissors, shears, or the like, with a snipping motion) · to cut (up); to divide something with a knife, etc. · to carve (meat)
çekim: geçmiş skar · ortaç skuren · ulaç skärande
köken: From Old Swedish skæra, from Old Norse skera (“to cut”), from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate to English scar and shear.
to cut (to divide with a sharp instrument) · to knife (to use a knife to cut, or cut through as if with a knife) · to cut (to form or shape by cutting)
çekim: geçmiş leikannut · şimdiki leikkaa · ulaç leikkaava
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lëik'at'ak, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more details). Cognates include Estonian lõikama (“to cut”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *nožь Old Church Slavonic ножь (nožĭ) Bulgarian нож Inherited from Old Church Slavonic ножь (nožĭ), from Proto-Slavic *nožь.
köken: Probably borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-West Germanic *fį̄hlu (“file, rasp”). Compare German Feile (“file (tool)”) and English file, as well as Proto-Slavic *pila (“saw”), itself borrowed from the Germanic.
knife (utensil or tool with a blade and a handle, designed for cutting)
çekim: çoğul naži · tamlayan naža
köken: Borrowed from Old East Slavic ножь (nožĭ, “knife”) (compare Russian нож (nož)). The word probably entered the language in the 13th century, and is attested in its modern form in dictionaries from the 17th century on.
knife · coulter · European razor clam (Solen vagina)
çekim: çoğul ganivets
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan canivet (compare Old French cnivet, canivet), originally with diminutive meaning. Itself from Frankish *knīf, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”).