Cute etymology discovery of the day. We should replace "hatchet" with "axeling" in English.
A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin)
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in reply to @VampireExpert's post:
Coincidentally, I realized just today that the French term for Raccoon, Raton laveur, translates basically to “little washing rat”