etymonline.org wrote:hammer (n.)
Old Englishhamor"hammer," from Proto-Germanic*hamaraz(source also of Old Saxonhamur, Middle Dutch, Dutchhamer, Old High Germanhamar,German Hammer). The Old Norse cognatehamarrmeant "stone, crag" (it's common in English place names), and suggests an original sense of the Germanic words as "tool with a stone head," which would describe the first hammers. The Germanic words thus could be from a PIE*ka-mer-, with reversal of initial sounds, from PIE*akmen"stone, sharp stone used as a tool" (source also of Old Church Slavonickamy, Russiankameni"stone"), from root "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce."
As a part of a firearm, 1580s; as a part of a piano, 1774; as a small bone of the ear, 1610s. Figurative use of "aggressive and destructive foe" is late 14c., from similar use of Frenchmartel, Latinmalleus. To go at it"with great violence and vigor" (1708) is an image from blacksmithing (the tongs hold the metal and the hammer beats it).hammer and tongsas an emblem of Soviet communism attested from 1921, symbolizing industrial and agricultural labor.Hammer and sickle
In [url=https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?p=12510372#p12510372]post 2408[/url], Andresvmb wrote:@Mod I’m VLA until Sunday
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