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.

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• (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

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asse

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• 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

• 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

From Old English assa.

• as

asse (plural assen or asses)

1. ass, donkey

• English: ass
• Yola: ess

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

asse

1. Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)

• 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

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[6], 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