Aas
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Aas
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German ās, partly from Old High German *ās, from Proto-Germanic *ēsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”) (from which also essen), and partly from Old High German āz (“carrion, feed, food”), from Proto-Germanic *ētą (“food, carrion”).
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Noun edit
Aas n (strong, genitive Aases, plural Aase or Äser)
- carrion
- bait
- (colloquial) beast, devil
- ein raffiniertes/kleines Aas ― a cunning/little devil
- (slang) sod, bugger
Declension edit
Declension of Aas [neuter, strong]
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Adjectives and verbs derived from Aas
Nouns derived from Aas
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -as
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Aas n
Further reading edit
- “Aas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Aas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Aas” in Duden online
- Aas on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aas”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891