adze
‘cutting tool used for dressing timber’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. adosa, adyse, addes < M.E. adese, adse < O.E. adesa ‘adze, hatchet,’ related to O.F. aisse, Lat. ascia ‘axe’ < O.E. æces (later æx) ‘axe, pickaxe, hatchet’ < Proto-G. akusjo < adz < agw(e)si < ak- < Tamil akku