Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. · To engrave a surface. · To make a lasting impression. · To sketch; to delineate.
From Dutch etsen (“to etch”), from German ätzen (“to etch”), from Old High German azzon (“to cause to bite or feed”), from Proto-Germanic *atjaną, causative of *etaną (“to eat”) (whence also English eat).
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