Where does “sarpa” come from?

sarpa (Latin) comes from Latin sarpo, from Proto-Indo-European serp- — to creep, crawl.

sarpa (Latin): some agricultural tool, such as a pruning-hook, mattock or hoe

Definitions

  1. some agricultural tool, such as a pruning-hook, mattock or hoe

Ancestry of “sarpa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinsarpoI prune
2Proto-Indo-Europeanserp-to creep, crawl
Every word from Proto-Indo-European serp-Every word from Latin sarpo