axe – English noun declension

English noun forms of axe

Noun: axe
Singularaxe
Pluralaxes

Sample Sentences

  • His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
  • the Beeching Axe
  • The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
  • I had a job in the great North Woods
  • Workin' as a cook for a spell
  • But I never did like it all that much
  • And one day the axe just fell [1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:]
  • But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945. [1994, Tony Scotland, The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People's Republic of China, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:]
  • Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley. [2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:]
  • A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.

Etymology

From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx (“axe”), from Proto-West Germanic *akusi (“axe”), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī (“axe”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Cognate with Scots aix (“axe”), Dutch aks (“axe”), German Axt (“axe”), Danish økse (“axe”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øks (“axe”), Icelandic öxi (“axe”), Swedish yxa (“axe”), Latin ascia (“axe, mason's trowel”). See: Middle English Nouns 'ax', Old English Nouns 'æx', Dutch Nouns 'aks', German Nouns 'Axt', Danish Nouns 'økse', Icelandic Nouns 'öxi', Swedish Nouns 'yxa', Latin Nouns 'ascia'.

Verbs referencing "axe"

German Nouns Axt, Ancient Greek Nouns ἀξίνη, Old Norse Nouns øx.