Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *adisôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_adisô
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997One century of heteroclitic inflectionGeorges-JeanPinaultRonald I.KimJanaMynářováPeterPavúkHrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred YearsLeidenBrill295–3162019aHittite Etymological DictionaryJaanPuhvelBerlinMouton de Gruyter11984𒀀𒋼𒌍𒊭adze, axe, hatchet*h₃edʰés-ō ~ *h₃edʰs-nésadze*h₃edʰ-to cut
nounmasculinean-stemadze; a woodworking tool with the cutting edge set roughly at right angles to the handlePossibly from pre-Germanic *h₃odʰ-és-on-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰés-ō ~ *h₃edʰs-nés, perhaps ultimately a tool noun from a poorly attested root *h₃edʰ-Kroonen 2013: 2. The only potential extra-Germanic cognate is Hittite 𒀀𒋼𒌍𒊭Mallory & Adams 1997: 37Pinault 2019a: 306Puhvel 1984: 227–28. The comparison is attractive but slender: within Germanic the word is essentially Old English only, so the Proto-Germanic reconstruction depends heavily on the Hittite match rather than on broad Germanic distribution.