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Danish
Etymology
From German ätzen, from Proto-Germanic *atjaną (“to make eat”), cognate with Old Norse etja (“to feed”). English etch and Dutch etsen are also borrowed from German. The Germanic verb is a causative of *etaną (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ætse (imperative æts, infinitive at ætse, present tense ætser, past tense ætsede, perfect tense har ætset)
- corrode (of an acid)
- (reflexive, figuratively) to influence painfully
- to etch (to engrave)