áss

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ass"

Hungarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

ás + -j

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaːʃː]
  • Rhymes: -aːʃː

Verb

áss

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of ás

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸāstom, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (to protect, shepherd).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːs/

Noun

áss n

  1. growth
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22a17
      Uisse in boill dó ass ón chiunn.
      [It is] proper for the members to grow from the head.
    • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 68, pages 115-179:
      Ba erdath ⁊ ba lith mor iarum la Colum Cille ann dogress dona braithribh. Ass n-ingnama doib: ann nobithe tremsi oc aurcilliud ⁊ oc legcude usce trit. Feil na n-Airemon leisom insin fo bithin is ann for·centai a n-as.
      A great festivity and merrymaking was regularly allowed by Colum Cille thereafter to the brethren. The growth of the crops was given to them then: three months were spent in tending and watering them. He called that the Feast of the Ploughmen, because it was then that the crops reached their full growth.
  2. verbal noun of ásaid (to grow)

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ássN
Vocative ássN
Accusative ássN
Genitive áissL
Dative ássL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: ás

Mutation

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

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fāsto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 125

Further reading

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ansaz ("beam").

Noun

áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)

  1. a thick pole, main beam (in a house)
  2. (nautical) the yard of a sail
Declension
Derived terms
  • ásstubbi m (the stump of a beam)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Likely from Proto-Germanic *amsaz (shoulder).

Noun

áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)

  1. a rocky ridge
Declension
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ás
  • Faroese: ásur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ås
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ås
  • Elfdalian: ǫs
  • Swedish: ås
  • Danish: ås
References
  • áss in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • áss in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Norse *ᚨᛊᚢᛉ (*asuʀ), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (god), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énsus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ens- (to engender, beget). Cognate with Old English ōs, Old Saxon ās, Old High German ans-, Latin Ansis pl (loaned from Gothic).

Alternative forms

Noun

áss m (genitive ásar, plural æsir)

  1. (Germanic paganism) one of the gods, Æsir
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ás m
    • Swedish: as c
    • Danish: as c
  • Faroese: ásur m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ås m
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ås m
  • Swedish: ås c (learned)
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