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tohew

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
to-hew
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.

Obsolete

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: tohewen, tōhēawan, *tehawwaną

Usage

Inflected Forms

tohews (present, singular) tohewing (participle, present) tohewed (past) tohewn (participle, past)

Questions

What does tohew mean?
To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.
Where does tohew come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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