köken: From Middle High German bīl, bīhel, from Old High German bīhal (whence also Bavarian Beichl), attested (in the form witubil) since the 8th century, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bíþla- (“axe”), instrumental noun from *bītaną (“to bite”). Compare Dutch bijl. Conflated early on with Proto-Germanic *bilją and its descendants (German Bille). (Kluge mentioned that, in his day, a relationship to…
cleaver (heavy square knife used by butchers) · brick knife · each of the prismatic pieces on whose edges the oscillatory movements of the scales are carried out
çekim: çoğul cutelos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cuitelo, coitelo (“knife”), from Latin cultellus (“small knife”), diminutive of culter. Compare Italian coltello, Spanish cuchillo and French couteau, all meaning "knife".
cleaver (squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc) · fascine knife (large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting fascines)
çekim: çoğul tasaki · tamlayan tasaka
köken: Borrowed from Old Czech tesák, from Proto-Slavic *tesakъ. Doublet of ciesak (“adze”) and ciosak (“stonemason's pickaxe”).
köken: From Serbo-Croatian sekirica (“hatchet”) (literally, "small axe"), diminutive of sekira (“axe”), from Proto-Slavic *sěkyra, itself from Latin securis.
little axe · a component of a certain kind of cramping looking like an axe, called in Ancient Greek πελεκῖνος (pelekînos)
çekim: çoğul secūriculae · tamlayan secūriculae
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Latin secūris Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin cula Latin secūricula From secūris + cula.