See also: Ast, AST, ást, ăst, as't, -ast, aṣṭ, and åst

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

ast

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Asturian.

EnglishEdit

VerbEdit

ast

  1. 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

ast m (plural asts or astos)

  1. spit, skewer
    pollastre a l'ast
    chicken on the skewer

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.

NounEdit

ast m (plural éste)

  1. (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

  1. (law, protasis) but if, and if (in double stipulations)
    Synonyms: sīn autem, porrō
  2. (literary, often followed by a vowel) but, however, whereas
    1. while, and
    Synonyms: at, sed
  3. (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

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *astudak.

VerbEdit

ast

  1. step

Northern KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Central Kurdish ئاست(ast).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ast m or f (Arabic spelling ئاست‎)

  1. level (degree or amount)

DeclensionEdit

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

  1. branch

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle High German: ast

Old SaxonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *ast.

NounEdit

ast m

  1. branch

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle Low German: ast