Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped. · The incus bone in the middle ear. · A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. · The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.
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- Inherited-form mentionanfiltenm
- Inherited-form mentionanfiltang
- Inherited-form mention*anafaltgmw-pro
- Cognate mentionanviltedum
- Cognate mentionAnfiltsnds
- Cognate mentionanafalzgoh
- Cognate mentionfalzende
- Derivation mention*pelh₂-t-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionletharmga
- Cognate mentionpellōla
- Cognate mentionπάλλωgrc
- Derivation mention*pelh₂-ine-pro
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