Talk:tool

Noun

 * 1) A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
 * Hand me that tool, would you?
 * 1) Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
 * These are the tools of the trade.
 * 1) (computing) A software to develop softwares or hardwares.
 * The software engineer had been developed lots of EDA tools.
 * 1) (slang) Penis.
 * 2) (slang) A person who uncritically supports and assists established authority. See sellout.
 * 3) (slang) By association, any contemptible, inadequate, or unpleasant person.
 * 4) (slang) A person who is used in relationships for reasons other than love.

That is the current definition,...
Each of the above seem[s] quite insufficient. Is there any etymology?

Is there any sense in this?:


 * The software engineer had been developed lots of EDA tools.

This is very offensive, & very much in need of etymology:


 * (slang) A complete idiot.

Thank You,

hopiakuta 16:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

< http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=tool&diff=30570&oldid=30569 >.

hopiakuta 19:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Requests for verification - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of January 2009. 07:03, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Etymology
Having followed the given etymologies of Spanish TALAR and TALADRO, it is possible that the latter lexeme has a hybrid etymology[7] - mainly from {{inh|es|LL.|tarātrum}, but possibly influenced by 🇨🇬[4] borrowed into Cornish from a substrate form[5]. However, there is no likelihood that the term for cutting down trees - TALAR - would have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic[1]; but much more likely to be derived from an Iberian substrate form[6], that may in turn be cognate with the root of all the Scandinavian similar terms ending in the "l" as well as TOOL in English[6]. All these forms could well have a similar hybrid etymology as with [4][whose Latin etymology[1] is very dubious], if with nothing else. 6 March 2020 Andrew (talk)

[0] means 'Absolutely not; [1] means 'Exceedingly unlikely'; [2] means 'Very dubious'; [3] means 'Questionable'; [4] means 'Possible'; [5] means 'Probable'; [6] means 'Likely'; [7] means 'Most Likely' or *Unattested; [8] means 'Attested'; [9] means 'Obvious' - only used for close matches within the same language or dialect, at linkable periods. '2' inserted in root words stands for a laryngeal to represent an 'a' that does not exist. √ means original or earliest root. Andrew H. Gray 14:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Andrew (talk)