hew
English
/hjuː/
verb
Definitions
- (ambitransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
- (transitive) To shape; to form.
- (transitive) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to (to).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hewen inherited from Old English hēawan (mince, chop, dice, hew) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (hew, forge, cut) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (hew, forge, strike, beat, hit).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kewh₂-
Gloss
hew, forge, strike, beat, hit
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- behew English
- forehew English
- forhew English
- hewable English
- hewer English
- hewest English
- heweth English
- rehew English
- rough English
- rough-hew English
- tohew English
- wood-hewer English
- woodhewer English
- Bildhauer German
- Eisenhauer German
- Hauer German
- abhauen German
- aushauen German
- behauen German
- hauen German
- hinhauen German
- raushauen German
- reinhauen German
- umhauen German
- verhauen German
- weghauen German
- zerhauen German
- *kewh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *kowH- Proto-Indo-European
- *kowh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- hugge Norwegian Bokmål
- *hawwaną Proto-Germanic
- *hawwą Proto-Germanic
- hogga Norwegian Nynorsk
- beheawan Old English
- forhēawan Old English
- heawan Old English
- hēawan Old English
- toheawan Old English
- behewen Middle English
- hewen Middle English
- tohewen Middle English
- banahǫgg Old Norse
- hǫggva Old Norse
- kylfuhǫgg Old Norse
- halshugge Danish
- hugge Danish
- spækhugger Danish
- *kovàti Proto-Slavic
- houwan Old High German
- houwen Middle High German
- anhaen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- haen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- houwan Old Dutch
- hauwan Old Saxon
- *kūdō Proto-Italic
- *hauwan Frankish
- hāwa Old Frisian
- kaut- Tocharian B