•to whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade) · to prepare, make preparations · to point as a weapon
strap (long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like) · belt (band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power)
çekim: tamlayan Riemens
köken: From Middle High German rieme, from Old High German riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reumō. Because of its superficial similarity to Russian ремень (remenʹ), some early Russian dictionaries posited a connection between the words, either deriving the Slavic one from the Germanic one (as Chudinov did), or deriving the Germanic word from the Slavic one (as Dal did). The latter suggestion is…
to sharpen (of a point, to make sharper) · to hone (e.g. a skill) · to whet
çekim: geçmiş aiguisé · ortaç aiguisé · şimdiki aiguise · ulaç aiguisant
eş: émoudre
köken: Inherited from Old French aguisier, from Vulgar Latin *acutiāre, from Latin acūtus, the past participle of acuō. Compare Catalan agusar, Italian aguzzare, Occitan agusar, Portuguese aguçar, Spanish aguzar. The initial -ai- can probably be explained through a hypothetical proto-French or late Vulgar Latin intermediate form *ayguydzar(e), from assimilation of the palatal approximant in the second…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old Galician-Portuguese a- Portuguese a- Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-der. Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom Latin fīlum Old Galician-Portuguese fio Portuguese fio Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old Galician-Portuguese -ar Portuguese -ar ▲ Latin fīlumder. Vulgar Latin *affīlāre? Portuguese afiar From…
to grind, sharpen, whet (make sharper by rubbing against something) · to grind, hone (make smoother by rubbing) · to sand (abrade the surface of with sand or sandpaper)
çekim: geçmiş hionut · şimdiki hioo · ulaç hiova
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hijodak (compare Estonian ihuma, Livonian jõ’vvõ, Veps hijoda), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *šija- (compare Northern Sami sadjit (“to hone, file”), Skolt Sami sââjjad (“to hone, grind, file”), Erzya човамс (čovams), Moksha шовамс (šovams, “to hone, file, grind”), Eastern Mari шумем (šumem, “to sharpen, hone”)).
çekim: geçmiş ascuțit · ortaç ascuțit · şimdiki ascute
köken: Probably from Vulgar Latin root *excotīre, from Classical Latin cōs, cōtis (“whetstone”). Compare cute and cuțit (“knife”). Cognate with Megleno-Romanian ascut, scuțǫt. Cf. also the semantic evolution of Catalan esmolar (“sharpen”), from mola (“grindstone”). Was also possibly influenced by a Vulgar Latin *acutiāre, from acūtus. Compare Italian aguzzare, Spanish aguzar. Another theory suggests the…