mattock

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From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: qylyk — agricultural tool
• Arabic: مِعْوَل (miʕwal) — agricultural tool
• Armenian: բրիչ (bričʻ) — agricultural tool
• Azerbaijani: alaqkeş — agricultural tool
• Azerbaijani: alaqvuran — agricultural tool
• Azerbaijani: toxa — agricultural tool
• Azerbaijani: kətmən — agricultural tool
• Bulgarian: мотика (motika) — agricultural tool
• Burmese: ပေါက်တူး (pauktu:) — agricultural tool
• Catalan: aixadella — agricultural tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鶴嘴鋤 /鹤嘴锄 (háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú) — agricultural tool
• Crimean Tatar: (northern dialect also şoqaman) qazma — agricultural tool
• Czech: motyka — agricultural tool
• Dutch: hak — agricultural tool
• Esperanto: pikfosilo — agricultural tool
• Finnish: kuokka — agricultural tool
• Finnish: kaksiteräinen kuokka — agricultural tool
• Finnish: kaksipäinen kuokka — agricultural tool
• French: pioche-hache — agricultural tool
• Galician: sacho — agricultural tool
• German: Mattock — agricultural tool
• German: Hacke — agricultural tool
• German: Breithacke — agricultural tool
• German: Rodehacke — agricultural tool
• German: Karst — agricultural tool
• German: Queraxt — agricultural tool
• German: Dechsel — agricultural tool
• German: Dexel — agricultural tool
• German: Deichsel — agricultural tool
• German: Haue — agricultural tool
• German: Krummaxt — agricultural tool
• Greek: αξίνα (axína) — agricultural tool
• Ancient Greek: σμινύη (sminúē) — agricultural tool
• Ancient Greek: δίκελλα (díkella) — agricultural tool
• Ancient Greek: μάκελλα (mákella) — agricultural tool
• Hungarian: csákány — agricultural tool
• Ido: haueto — agricultural tool
• Ingrian: kookka — agricultural tool
• Irish: matóg — agricultural tool
• Irish: láí — agricultural tool
• Italian: piccone — agricultural tool
• Japanese: マトック (matokku) — agricultural tool
• Latin: ligō — agricultural tool
• Latvian: kaplis — agricultural tool
• Malayalam: കൂന്താലി (kūntāli) — agricultural tool
• Māori: mātiki — agricultural tool
• Middle English: mattok — agricultural tool
• Norwegian Bokmål: hakke — agricultural tool
• Old English: mattuc — agricultural tool
• Persian: میتین (mitin) — agricultural tool
• Plautdietsch: Hak — agricultural tool
• Polish: motyka — agricultural tool
• Polish: oskard — agricultural tool
• Portuguese: sacho — agricultural tool
• Romanian: târnăcop — agricultural tool
• Romanian: sapă — agricultural tool
• Russian: моты́га (motýga) — agricultural tool
• Russian: киркомоты́га (kirkomotýga) — agricultural tool
• Slovak: motyka — agricultural tool
• Spanish: zapapico — agricultural tool
• Spanish: azadón — agricultural tool
• Spanish: azada — agricultural tool
• Spanish: zapa — agricultural tool
• Turkish: gedmen — agricultural tool
• Ottoman Turkish: كدمان (gedman, gedmen) — agricultural tool
• Ukrainian: біґа (biga) — agricultural tool
• Welsh: caib — agricultural tool