Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. · To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. · To win by a small margin. · To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
The boundary line of a surface. · A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. · An advantage. · The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).
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- Root classification mention*h₂eḱ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentioneggeenm
- Inherited-form mentioneċġang
- Inherited-form mention*aggjugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*agjōgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*h₂eḱ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentioneggenl
- Cognate mentionEckede
- Cognate mentionægda
- Cognate mentionhogicy
- Cognate mentionaciēsla
- Cognate mentionašslv
- Cognate mentionἀκίςgrc
- Cognate mentionآسfa
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