Re: OT: an axe to grind

Adam Walker scripsit:

> I've been looking at possible roots for the word
> "axe", "adz" and "hatchet" in Carrajina. I've come up
> with several possibilities.
Is _Carrajina_ a typo, or have you changed the name of the lang?

You are lucky.  Meyer-Lübke has "Axt" in his German-Romance
wordlist and gives several words for "axe":

ASCIA -- also gives Old French aisse, Fr. aisseau, aissette;
    Old Provençal aisa, Italian  asce, South French eissun >
    French aisson.
ASCIOLA  -- Sp. azuela, Fr. dialect sulot.
BARDA (Germanic) -- found in Walloon and Swiss French, as well
    as in Rumanian by way of Hungarian.
BARTCHE "small axe" (Low German) -- borrowed into Lotharingian French
BISACÛTUS "with two edges" -- It. bicciacuto, Fr. besaiguë
    > It. bisegolo, Sp. bisagra; prov. bezaguda for various axe-like
    tools.
CUNEÂTUS "sharpened to a wedge-shape" -- South It. koññata/-o; Fr. dial.
    cognée "axe".
DEXTRÂLIS "axe" -- the same derivatives as you give
DOLABRA "breaking-axe" -- Swiss dialects delavra, delobra, verb delabrá
    "take apart" > Fr. délabrer "tear apart".
DOLATORIA -- Old Venetian doladora, Fr. doloire, Prov. doladoira,
    Breton daladur
HAPJA (Frankish) "sickle" -- Prov. apcha/apia, Fr. hache > OIt. accia,
    Sp. hacha > Portuguese facha
LOMBARDUS -- "Timber axe" in Swiss dialects since Italians worked as
    lumberers!  Quite independent thus of the fact that Longobard means
    "long-axe"!
MANUARIUS "belonging to the hand" -- It. mannaia "hand-axe"
MARCULUS "hammer" -- Sp./Pg. macho "axe".
MARRA "pickaxe" -- means "stone-hammer" or "axe" in dialects
MARTELLUS "hammer" -- OFr. martelin Fr. marlin "wood-axe".


> The Latin word "secu:ris"
means "broad-axe"

>
> Romanian adds a whole list of oddballs that don't seem
> to be Romance in origin:
> oblu, rândea, teslă, topor, toporaş,
> barduţa.
> I'm guessing that some are Slavic and some are
> Hungarian. There dosen't appear to be a Turkish form,
> unless "barduţa" is related to "balta".
Topor is indeed Slavic.

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