aska
Appearance
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse aska, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.
Noun
[edit]aska f (genitive singular ösku, no plural)
- ashes, ash
- Aska hylur vígvöllinn eftir að sprengjurnar féllu.
- The battlefield is covered in ashes after the bombs had fallen.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]aska
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]aska m or f
Old High German
[edit]Noun
[edit]aska f
- Alternative spelling of asca
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *askǭ, whence also Old English æsce (English ash), Old Saxon aska (Middle Low German asche), Old High German asca (German Asche), Dutch as, West Frisian jiske, Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 (azgō).
Noun
[edit]aska f
Declension
[edit] Declension of aska (weak ōn-stem, singular only)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: aska
- Faroese: øska
- Norwegian:
- Old Swedish: aska
- Swedish: aska
- Old Danish: askæ
- Danish: aske
References
[edit]- “aska”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *askā, whence also Old English æsce, Old High German asca, Old Norse aska.
Noun
[edit]aska f
- ash (combustion residue)
Descendants
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- aſka (obsolete typography)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse aska, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]aska c (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | aska | askas |
definite | askan | askans | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
- askmoln (“ash cloud”)
- askonsdag (“Ash Wednesday”)
- kakelugnsaska (“cocklestove ash”)
- säck och aska
- ur askan i elden (“out of the frying pan into the fire”, literally “out of the ashes into the fire”)
Verb
[edit]aska (present askar, preterite askade, supine askat, imperative aska)
- to ash, to remove ashes from a cigaret, smoking pipe, stove, or burner
- to coat or cover (goat cheese) with ash
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of aska (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | aska | askas | ||
Supine | askat | askats | ||
Imperative | aska | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | asken | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | askar | askade | askas | askades |
Ind. plural1 | aska | askade | askas | askades |
Subjunctive2 | aske | askade | askes | askades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | askande | |||
Past participle | askad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Further reading
[edit]- aska in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/aska
- Rhymes:Icelandic/aska/2 syllables
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic uncountable nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic terms with usage examples
- Icelandic non-lemma forms
- Icelandic noun forms
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German feminine nouns
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse ōn-stem nouns
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon lemmas
- Old Saxon nouns
- Old Saxon feminine nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish uncountable nouns
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish weak verbs