Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.
From Middle English tohewen, from Old English tōhēawan (“to hew in pieces, chop up”), from Proto-Germanic *tehawwaną (“to cut to pieces”), equivalent to to- + hew. Cognate with Old Frisian tehawa, Middle Low German tohouwen, Dutch tehouwen, German zerhauen (“to chop up, hack”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiontohewenenm
- Inherited-form mentiontōhēawanang · to hew in pieces, chop up
- Inherited-form mention*tehawwanągem-pro · to cut to pieces
- Word-formation componentto-en
- Word-formation componenthewen
- Cognate mentiontehawaofs
- Cognate mentiontohouwengml
- Cognate mentiontehouwennl
- Cognate mentionzerhauende · to chop up, hack
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