asse

• IPA^(key): /æs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

asse (plural asses)

1. Obsolete spelling of ass.

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

asse (plural asses)

1. (rare) A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).^[1]

   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

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

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

• assu, essen, ässe, ässä

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

asse

1. (Carcoforo) to eat

• 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

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asse m (plural asses)

1. a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

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

Spatial inflection of asse

→○	illative	asse
○	inessive	as
○→	elative	ast

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

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

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

• saa, nasse, nas, nast, as, ast

• 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

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

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

asse f (plural assi)

1. board (of wood)

   Synonyms: pancone, tavola

2. beam (gymnastic)

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

asse m (plural assi)

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

   Synonym: epistrofeo

• assiale

From Latin as.

asse f (plural assi)

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

• -essa, essa

asse

1. ablative singular of as

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈas(ə)/

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, 10 January 2019:

     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)

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

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

asse

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

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

• assen

asse f

1. she-ass

   Synonym: esole

asse m

1. alternative form of assa

• assa

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.^[1]

asse (comparative assu)

1. easy

• anse

• 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

asse

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

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

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

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

asse

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