English
hatchetlike
From hatchet + -like.
Formed from hatchet + -like
Proto-Indo-European *kop- ‘to strike, to beat’
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Vulgar Latin *happia ‘axe, hatchet’
Old French hache ‘axe’
Old French hachete
Middle English hachet ‘a hatchet’
English hatchet
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a hatchet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hatchetlike