to prune (trim a tree or shrub) · to prune (cut down or shorten)
çekim: geçmiş snoeiden · ortaç gesnoeid · şimdiki snoeit · ulaç snoeiend
eş: rondsnuffelen, snoepen
köken: Inherited from Middle Dutch snoeyen. Further etymology is unknown, although several theories exist: * One theory suggests a common source with Old High German nōen (“to carve, to shave off”), but a lack of other cognates makes this unlikely; * In older texts, and dialectally, the word is synonymous with snoepen (“to snack, to eat something tasty”), which originally referred to picking fruits or…
çekim: geçmiş beskar · ortaç beskåret · ulaç beskærende
köken: From be- + skære, after Middle Low German bescheren. Cognate with Swedish beskära, Norwegian Bokmål beskjære, Dutch bescheren, West Frisian beskeare, English beshear, Old Frisian biskera and Yiddish באַשערן (bashern) (See past participle באַשערט (bashert)).
to sever using a sharp object; to cut, snip, slit, trim, clip, shear, etc. · to intersect
köken: From Proto-Vietic *kac, from Proto-Austroasiatic *kacʔ (“to pluck; to harvest”). Cognate with Muong Bi cách, Pacoh kéiq (“to pick, to pluck”), Ngeq kɛc, Khmer កាច់ (kac, “to break, to snap”), Bahnar kĕch (“to harvest”), Pnar khait (“to pick”), Kensiu kec. Doublet of gặt (“to harvest”) through a prefixed form. Unrelated to Chinese 割 (OC *Cə-kˤat) (SV: cát), although the two are sometimes…