Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded. · Intelligent. · Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ⟨♯⟩ after the name of the note). · Higher in pitch than required.
To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. · To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. · To sharpen.
To a point or edge. · Piercingly. · Eagerly. · So as to make a sharp, or tight, angle.
The symbol ⟨♯⟩, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher. · A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ⟨♯⟩. · A note that is sharp in a particular key. · The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scherp, scharp, schaarp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian щерба (ščerba, “notch”), Polish szczerba (“gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”). More at shear.
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- Root classification mention*(s)ker- (cut)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionscharpenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċearpang
- Inherited-form mention*skarpgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skarpazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*(s)kerb-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionskerpfy
- Cognate mentionscherpnds
- Cognate mentionscherpnl
- Cognate mentionscharfde
- Cognate mentionskarpda
- Cognate mentioncearbga · keen; cutting
- Cognate mentionacerbusla · tart, bitter
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