áss
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ass"
Hungarian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
áss
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *ɸāstom, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
áss n
- growth
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22a17
- Uisse in boill dó ass ón chiunn.
- [It is] proper for the members to grow from the head.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 68, pages 115-179:
- Ba erdath ⁊ ba lith mor iarum la Colum Cille ann dogress dona braithribh. Ass n-ingnama doib: ann nobithe tremsi oc aurcilliud ⁊ oc legcude usce trit. Feil na n-Airemon leisom insin fo bithin is ann for·centai a n-as.
- A great festivity and merrymaking was regularly allowed by Colum Cille thereafter to the brethren. The growth of the crops was given to them then: three months were spent in tending and watering them. He called that the Feast of the Ploughmen, because it was then that the crops reached their full growth.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22a17
- verbal noun of ásaid (“to grow”)
Inflection edit
| Neuter o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | ássN | — | — |
| Vocative | ássN | — | — |
| Accusative | ássN | — | — |
| Genitive | áissL | — | — |
| Dative | ássL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| áss | unchanged | n-áss |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fāsto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 125
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *ansaz ("beam").
Noun edit
áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)
Declension edit
Declension of áss (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- ásstubbi m (“the stump of a beam”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: ás
- Faroese: ásur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ås
- Norwegian Bokmål: ås
- Danish: ås
- Swedish: ås, takås
Etymology 2 edit
Likely from Proto-Germanic *amsaz (“shoulder”).
Noun edit
áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)
- a rocky ridge
Declension edit
Declension of áss (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: ás
- Faroese: ásur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ås
- Norwegian Bokmål: ås
- Elfdalian: ǫs
- Swedish: ås
- Danish: ås
References edit
- áss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- áss in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
Etymology 3 edit
From Proto-Norse *ᚨᛊᚢᛉ (*asuʀ), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énsus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ens- (“to engender, beget”). Cognate with Old English ōs, Old Saxon ās, Old High German ans-, Latin Ansis pl (loaned from Gothic).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
áss m (genitive ásar, plural æsir)
Declension edit
Declension of áss (strong u-stem)
Derived terms edit
- ásynja f (“a goddess”)