vass

See also: Vass, váss, and vass-

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• bass (Mezzaselva)

Etymology

From Middle High German vaz, from Old High German faz, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel, container”). Cognate with German Fass, Dutch vat, English vat, Icelandic fat.

Noun

vass n (plural vèssar, diminutive vèssle)

1. (Sette Comuni) vat, tub

   De baibar habent gabèsset au an vass gaplèttarakh. ― The women washed a tub of clothing.

Declension

Declension of vass – 3rd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	's	vass	de	vèssar
accusative	an	's	vass	de	vèssar
dative	aname	me	vasse	in	vèssarn

References

• “bass” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vass

1. imperative of vassa

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vas/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hvas, from Old Norse hvǫss, hvass, from Proto-Germanic *hwassaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷh₁dstós.

Alternative forms

• hvass (obsolete)

Adjective

vass (comparative vassare, superlative vassast)

1. sharp (able to cut easily)
2. (figuratively) sharp

   vass tunga

   sharp tongue

Declension

Inflection of vass

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	vass	vassare	vassast
neuter singular	vasst	vassare	vassast
plural	vassa	vassare	vassast
masculine plural2	vasse	vassare	vassast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	vasse	vassare	vassaste
all	vassa	vassare	vassaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vas, from Proto-Germanic *wassaz, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”).

båt i vassen [boat in the reeds]

Noun

vass c

1. (usually collectively) reed; reeds
   • 1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”‎^[1]:

     I Roslagens famn på den blommande ö, där vågorna klucka [old present tense plural, usually kluckar] mot strand, och vassarna vagga [old present tense plural, usually vaggar] och nyslaget hö, det doftar emot mig ibland.

     In Roslagen's embrace on the flowering island, where the waves lap ["cluck" – onomatopoeic] against shore [sic – indefinite], and the reeds [plural definite here] sway and of freshly mown hay, it wafts [smells pleasantly, "scents"] towards me sometimes [sic].

2. a clump of reeds
3. reed bed

Declension

Declension of vass

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vass	vass
	definite	vassen	vassens
plural	indefinite	vassar	vassars
	definite	vassarna	vassarnas

Derived terms

• vasspipa
• vasstrå
• vassbädd

See also

• säv (“club-rush; lakeshore bulrush”)

Further reading

• “vass”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• vass in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• savs