Äsche

See also: asche and Asche

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German asca, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ. Cognate with German Asche, Dutch as, English ash, Swedish aska.

Noun

Äsche f

1. (Uri) ash, ashes

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 13.

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German

Thymallus thymallus

Etymology

From Middle High German asche m, from Old High German asco, probably derived from asca (“ash, ashes”), whence modern German Asche, due to the fish's grey colour. The umlaut is sometimes explained as stemming from a plural, but the Middle High German noun had weak declension and thus no umlaut. Therefore more probably from the secondary umlaut triggered by following -sch-, which occurs throughout western dialects of High German. Standardised here to avoid the homophony with Asche above, as also in the unrelated Esche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʃə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃə
• Homophone: Esche

Noun

Äsche f (genitive Äsche, plural Äschen)

1. grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

   Synonym: Europäische Äsche f

Declension

Declension of Äsche [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Äsche	die	Äschen
genitive	einer	der	Äsche	der	Äschen
dative	einer	der	Äsche	den	Äschen
accusative	eine	die	Äsche	die	Äschen

Further reading

• “Äsche” in Duden online