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…
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…