asse

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asse"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. Obsolete spelling of ass.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. (rare) A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).

   Synonym: asse fox

   • 1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal‎^[2]:

     and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).

   • 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10‎^[3], page 769:

     South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.

   • 1973, West, Geoffrey P. (Geoffrey Philip), Rabies in animals & man‎^[4], New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox

References

• “asse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ESAs, Essa, SAEs, SASE, SSAE, Seas, ases, seas

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• assu, essen, ässe, ässä

Etymology

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

asse

1. (Carcoforo) to eat

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

asse m (plural asses)

1. a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

Further reading

• “asse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ingrian

Spatial inflection of asse

→○	illative	asse
○	inessive	as
○→	elative	ast

Etymology

Formed analogously from ast by replacing the (superficial) elative ending with an illative ending.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːe/, [ˈɑs̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːe/, [ˈɑʃːe̞]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːek/, [ˈɑʃːe̞ɡ̊]
• Rhymes: -ɑsː, -ɑsːe
• Hyphenation: as‧se

Postposition

asse (+ illative or allative)

1. (of time) up to, until
2. (of distance or motion) all the way to

asse (+ elative or ablative)

1. (of time) ever since
2. (of distance or motion) all the way from

Synonyms

• saa, nasse, nas, nast, as, ast

Derived terms

• nasse

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 21
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 21

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈas.se/
• Rhymes: -asse
• Hyphenation: às‧se

Etymology 1

From Latin axis, axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. board (of wood)

   Synonyms: pancone, tavola

2. beam (gymnastic)

Etymology 2

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

Noun

asse m (plural assi)

1. axle
2. (mathematics, physics) axis
3. (anatomy) axis (vertebra)

   Synonym: epistrofeo

Derived terms

• assiale

Etymology 3

From Latin as.

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

Anagrams

• -essa, essa

Latin

Noun

asse

1. ablative singular of as

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative	asse
Genitive	ase
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asse	ase
Accusative	asev	asijt
Genitive	ase	asij
Illative	assáj	asijda
Inessive	asen	asijn
Elative	ases	asijs
Comitative	asijn	asij
Abessive	asedagá asedagi	asijdagá asijdagi
Essive	assen
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person assám assáma assáma 2nd person assát assáda assáda 3rd person asses asseska assesa

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English

An asse in Devenschire.

Etymology 1

From Old English assa, a back-formation from assen (“she-ass, female donkey”).

Alternative forms

• has, as, ass (Northern or Late Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈas(ə)/

Noun

asse (plural assen or asses or (late) asse)

1. An ass or donkey (Equus asinus asinus, especially if male)
   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎^[6], Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þ^t poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe.

     At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[7], published c. 1410, Joon 12:15, folio 51, recto, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     […] as it is writũ / þe douȝtir of ſion .· nyle þou dꝛede / lo! þi kĩg comeþ sittynge on an aſſe foole [translating pullum asinae]

     […] like it's been written: "Don't be scared, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming sitting on a donkey's colt."

2. A wild ass or wild donkey (Equus africanus)
3. An ass (stupid person, moron)

Declension

Declension of asse

	singular	plural
(nominative/accusative)	asse	assen, asses
genitive	asses, asse	*assene, asses
dative	—	—

Descendants

• English: ass
• Middle Scots: as, asse
  • Scots: ass
• Yola: ess

References

• “asse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

asse

1. (Late Middle English, Yorkshire) alternative form of asken (“to ask”)

Old English

Etymology 1

From earlier assen, from Latin asina. By surface analysis, assa +‎ -e (feminine)

Alternative forms

• assen

Noun

asse f

1. she-ass

   Synonym: esole

Etymology 2

Noun

asse m

1. alternative form of assa

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• assa

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.

Adjective

asse (comparative assu)

1. easy

Declension

io/iā-stem

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	assae	assae	assae
vocative	assai
accusative	assae	assai
genitive	assai	assae	assai
dative	assu	assai	assu
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	assai	assai
vocative	assai assu*
accusative	assai assu*
genitive	assae
dative	assaib

* when substantivized

Derived terms

• anse

Mutation

Mutation of asse

radical	lenition	nasalization
asse (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	asse	n-asse

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 assa(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• अस्से (Devanagari script)
• অস্সে (Bengali script)
• අස‍්සෙ (Sinhalese script)
• အဿေ or ဢသ်သေ (Burmese script)
• อสฺเส or อัสเส (Thai script)
• ᩋᩔᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອສ຺ເສ or ອັສເສ (Lao script)
• អស្សេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

asse

1. locative singular of assa
2. accusative plural of assa

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative	asse
Genitive	ase
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asse	ase
Accusative	asev	isijt
Genitive	ase	isij
Illative	assáj	isijda
Inessive	asen	isijn
Elative	asest ases	isijst isijs
Comitative	isijn	isij
Essive	assen

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[8], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

asse

1. inflection of assar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative