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’ < O.E. æces ‘axe, pickaxe, hatchet’ < æx < Proto-G akusjo < agw(e)si ‘axe’ < adz < ak < Tamil akku