Asche

See also: asche and Äsche

German

Etymology

From Middle High German asche, from Old High German asca, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ. Compare Low German Asch, Dutch as, English ash, Danish aske, Swedish aska.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaʃə]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʃə

Noun

Asche f (genitive Asche, plural Aschen)

1. ash; ashes
2. (colloquial) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Geld

Declension

Declension of Asche [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Asche	die	Aschen
genitive	einer	der	Asche	der	Aschen
dative	einer	der	Asche	den	Aschen
accusative	eine	die	Asche	die	Aschen

Derived terms

• Aschenputtel, Aschenbrödel

Related terms

• aschblond, aschenfarbig, aschgrau, aschig

Further reading

• “Asche” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Asche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Asche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Asche” in Duden online
• Asche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Asche”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891