ax

See also .ax, and ах

English

Etymology 1

See axe.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăks, IPA: /æks/, SAMPA: /{ks/

  Rhymes: -æks

Noun

ax (plural axes)

1. Alternative spelling of axe.

Verb

ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

1. Alternative spelling of axe.

Etymology 2

Old English acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.

Verb

ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

1. (now dialectal or nonstandard) Alternative form of ask.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:

     When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?

   • 1979, Verna Mae Slone, What My Heart Wants to Tell, Kentucky 1988, p. 18:

     ‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse

Noun

ax n.

1. ear (of corn)

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Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• aax, hax

Verb

ax

1. ask

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Old French

Contraction

ax

1. Contraction of a + les (to the)

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Swedish

Noun

ax n.

1. an ear (fruiting body of a grain plant)

Declension

Declension of ax

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ax	axet	ax	axen
genitive	ax	axets	ax	axens