Etymograph

English

honer

From hone + -er.

A compound of hone + -er

Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- ‘to sharpen’

Proto-Germanic *hainō ‘whetstone’

Old English hān ‘a projecting stone that forms part of a boundary’

Middle English hon ‘whetstone’

English hone

Today it means

noun One who hones.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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