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German Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German akes, from Old Saxon akus, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
Noun
Akes f (plural Aksen or Äksen)
- (Westphalian) axe
References
- Friedrich Woeste, Wörterbuch der westfälischen Mundart (Wörterbücher. Herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Band I) (1882, Norden & Leipzig: Diedr. Soltau's Verlag), p. 4: "akes, f. axt. Must. 49."