अश्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐɕ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐɕ/

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach, attain”).^[1][2] Cognate with English enough.

• नश् (naś)

अश् • (aś)

1. to reach, obtain, come to, arrive at
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.154.5:

     तद॑स्य प्रि॒यम॒भि पाथो॑ अश्यां नरो॒ यत्र॑ देव॒यवो॒ मद॑न्ति।
     उ॒रु॒क्र॒मस्य॒ स हि बन्धु॑रि॒त्था विष्णोः॑ प॒दे प॑र॒मे मध्व॒ उत्सः॑॥

     tádasya priyámabhí pā́tho aśyāṃ naro yátra devayávo mádanti.
     urukramásya sá hí bándhuritthā́ víṣṇoḥ padé paramé mádhva útsaḥ.

     May I attain his favourite path, in which god-seeking men delight; the path of that wide-stepping Viṣṇu, in whose exalted station there is a perpetual flow of felicity; for to such a degree is he the friend of the pious.

2. to get, gain, obtain
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.1.3:

     अ॒ग्निना॑ र॒यिम्अश्नव॒त्पोष॑मे॒व दि॒वेदि॑वे।
     य॒शसं॑ वी॒रव॑त्तमम्॥

     agnínā rayímáśnávatpóṣamevá divédive.
     yaśásaṃ vīrávattamam.

     Through Agni the worshipper obtains that affluence which increases day by day, which is the source of fame and multiplier of mankind.

3. to master

• Monier Williams (1899), “अश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 112, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), “1 aç, aṅç, 'attain'”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 4

• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “अश्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 316
• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 395

From a putative Proto-Indo-Iranian *HaćH- (“to eat”), with further origin uncertain;^[1] compare perhaps Persian آش (âš, “a thick type of soup”).^[2] Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱh₃- (“to eat”), with tentative cognates including Old Norse æja (“to graze, rest and eat”) and agn (“fish bait”), as well as Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).^[3]

अश् • (aś)

1. to eat, consume

• Monier Williams (1899), “अश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 112, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), “2 aç, 'eat'”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 5

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 18