taporæx

== Old English == === Etymology === From Old Norse taparøx (“small axe”), from Old East Slavic топоръ (toporŭ), from Proto-Slavic *toporъ, probably from an Iranian language. Judging by dictionaries, the axe is only mentioned as tool to define shore width by throwing it from a ship that is floating next to shore during high tide (Danish king Cnut gave to Christ Church at Canterbury the Sandwich port and landings along River Stour from Sandwich to the river mouth). Compared with francisca (throwing axe) and also: Axe 1 and axe 2 (600±100 AD) from Ozengell cemetery, Kent (fig. 1 and 2 in Hewitt, No. 1 in Archaeologia) Axe from grave at Coombe, Kent (No. 2 in Archaeologia) Axe from Richborough Castle field, Kent (No. 3 in Archaeologia) Small iron axe from Colchester, Essex ("Small axe" in Archaeologia, No. 2 in Akerman) Axe (?950±150 AD) from River Thames at London (No. 1 in Akerman) === Noun === taporæx f securis parvula “(xxxiii) ꞇapeꞃ æx”, in The Parker/Winchester Chronicle [A] (MS 173)‎[1] (in Old English), (Can we date this quote?), page 67: “(line 7) ſecuriſ paruula, ꞇaꝑ eax (taper eax)”, in Stowe Ch 39 (in Latin), 1125±25 “(line 6) ſecurıſ paruula (securis parvula)”, in Gospels of Macdurnan (MS 1370) (in Latin), (Can we date this quote?) “(line 9) ꞇapeꞃæx (taperæx)”, in Chartae Antiquae S 260 (CCA-DCc-ChAnt/S/260) (in Old English), ?1066±33 ==== Declension ==== Strong i-stem: ==== See also ==== tapor (“taper (thin candle)”) æx (“axe”), handæx ==== References ==== === Further reading === Charles Plummer (1865), chapter 1031, in Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel with supplementary extracts from the others. On the basis of an edition by John Earle., Oxford: Clarendon press, page 158 Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tapor-æx”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 972. Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963) [1934], “tapor-æx f.”, in Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →OCLC, page 343. Timothy Graham (2003), “King Cnut's Grant of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury: A New Reading of a Damaged Annal in Two Copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, in Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr, Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, page 172