To a Filipino the axe is making sections or fractions, not parts; palako (axe) echos פלח PHeLahK[H] (section -- see "FLAKE") or several bilabial-liquid-gutturals at "BREAK."
It is predictable that many such words will have the guttural-dental ring of "cut" (see "CUT"), and that Asian words will reverse these. The Korean axe is dokki dokki 도끼. — Isaac Mozeson
