ast
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
ast
EnglishEdit
VerbEdit
ast
- Pronunciation spelling of asked, simple past tense and past participle of ask
- 1937, w:John Steinbeck, w:Of Mice and Men[1], Penguin Books Limited, published 2000, →ISBN:
- Curley said, "Well, I didn't mean nothing, Slim. I just ast you."
- 1988 October 21, Bryan Miller, “Strangers in a Train Station”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- I just ast her.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin hasta (“spear, lance”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
CimbrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German ast, from Old High German ast.
Cognates
NounEdit
ast m (plural éste)
- (Sette Comuni) conifer branch
- Dar ast ist guuts holtz so prönnan.
- Conifer branches make excellent firewood.
ReferencesEdit
- “ast” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably a univerbation of at + est with subsequent contraction.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
ast
- (law, protasis) but if, and if (in double stipulations)
- (literary, often followed by a vowel) but, however, whereas
- (literary) and then, forthwith, whereupon (followed immediately by a subject switch, normally a personal pronoun)
ReferencesEdit
- “ast” on page 209 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ast”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
Further readingEdit
- “ast”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ast”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
LivonianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Courland) astõ
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *astudak.
VerbEdit
ast
Northern KurdishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Central Kurdish ئاست (ast).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ast m or f (Arabic spelling ئاست)
- level (degree or amount)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ast
Definite feminine and masculine gender | ||||
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Case | Feminine (sg) | Masculine (sg) | Plural | |
Nominative | ast | ast | ast | |
Construct | asta | astê | astên | |
Oblique | astê | astî | astan | |
Demonstrative oblique | wê astê | wî astî | wan astan | |
Vocative | astê | asto | astino | |
Indefinite feminine and masculine gender | ||||
Rewş | Feminine (sg) | Masculine (sg) | Plural | |
Nominative | astek | astek | astin | |
Construct | asteke | astekî | astine | |
Oblique | astekê | astekî | astinan |
ReferencesEdit
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ast”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 15
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *ast.
NounEdit
ast m
DescendantsEdit
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *ast.
NounEdit
ast m
DescendantsEdit
- Middle Low German: ast