wasche

See also: wäsche and Wäsche

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aʃə

Verb

wasche

1. inflection of waschen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English wæsċ, wæsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *wasku. See the verb waschen.

Alternative forms

• waisch, wasch, wasshe
• wesce (Early Middle English, Southern)
• wessh, wesshe (East Saxon); wesche (Catholicon Anglicum)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaʃ(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛʃ(ə)/ (East Saxon, Southern, Northern)

Noun

wasche

1. The process of washing or cleaning.
2. (rare) Water used to wash; dishwater.
3. (rare) A shallow part of a body of water.

Descendants

• English: wash
• Middle Scots: wesche, wasche
  • Scots: wash

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

wasche

1. alternative form of waschen