English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /æs/
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  • Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

asse (plural asses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ass

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

asse (plural asses)

  1. (rare) A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).[1]
    • 1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal[2]:
      and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).
    • 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10[3], page 769:
      South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.
    • 1973, West, Geoffrey P. (Geoffrey Philip), Rabies in animals & man[4], New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox

References edit

  1. ^ Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900 (1890) Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes : a monograph of the Canidae[1]

References edit

Anagrams edit

Alemannic German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb edit

asse

  1. (Carcoforo) to eat

References edit

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

asse m (plural asses)

  1. a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

Further reading edit

Ingrian edit

Spatial inflection of asse
→○ illative asse
inessive
○→ elative ast

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Postposition edit

asse (+ illative or allative)

  1. (of time) up to, until
  2. (of distance or motion) all the way to

asse (+ elative or ablative)

  1. (of time) ever since
  2. (of distance or motion) all the way from

Synonyms edit

References edit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 21

Italian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈas.se/
  • Rhymes: -asse
  • Hyphenation: às‧se

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin axis, axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (axis).

Noun edit

asse f (plural assi)

  1. board (of wood)
    Synonyms: pancone, tavola
  2. beam (gymnastic)

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

Noun edit

asse m (plural assi)

  1. axle
  2. (mathematics, physics) axis
  3. (anatomy) axis (vertebra)
    Synonym: epistrofeo
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Latin as.

Noun edit

asse f (plural assi)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Noun edit

asse

  1. ablative singular of as

Lule Sami edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun edit

asse

  1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection edit

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative asse
Genitive ase
Singular Plural
Nominative asse ase
Accusative asev asijt
Genitive ase asij
Illative assáj asijda
Inessive asen asijn
Elative ases asijs
Comitative asijn asij
Abessive asedagá
asedagi
asijdagá
asijdagi
Essive assen
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person assám assáma assáma
2nd person assát assáda assáda
3rd person asses asseska assesa

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English assa.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

asse (plural assen or asses)

  1. ass, donkey
Descendants edit
  • English: ass
  • Yola: ess
References edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

asse

  1. Alternative form of axen (to ask)

Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.[1]

Adjective edit

asse (comparative assu)

  1. easy

Declension edit

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative assae assae assae
Vocative assai
Accusative assae assai
Genitive assai assae assai
Dative assu assai assu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative assai assai
Vocative assai
assu*
Accusative assai
assu*
Genitive assae
Dative assaib
Notes * when substantivized

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
asse unchanged n-asse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sādo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318

Further reading edit

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

asse

  1. locative singular of assa
  2. accusative plural of assa

Pite Sami edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun edit

asse

  1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection edit

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative asse
Genitive ase
Singular Plural
Nominative asse ase
Accusative asev isijt
Genitive ase isij
Illative assáj isijda
Inessive asen isijn
Elative asest
ases
isijst
isijs
Comitative isijn isij
Essive assen

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

asse

  1. inflection of assar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative