Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice. · The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision. · The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke. · The distance between diverging saw teeth.
From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch; clipping”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Käärf, West Frisian kerf, Swedish korv. Related also to Dutch kerf, German Low German Karve, Karv, German Kerbe.
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- Inherited-form mentionkerfenm
- Inherited-form mentioncyrfang · an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument
- Inherited-form mention*kurbigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kurbizgem-pro · a cut; notch; clipping
- Derivation mention*gerbʰ-ine-pro · to scratch
- Cognate mentionKäärfstq
- Cognate mentionkerffy
- Cognate mentionkorvsv
- Cognate mentionkerfnl
- Cognate mentionKerbede
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