Old English · noun
mattuc
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ˈmɑt.tuk/
- Syllables
- ˈmɑt · tuk (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- mattockpickaxe
Meaning
-
a mattock or pickaxe
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”)
Descendants
mattock
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