# asse
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /æs/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æs

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

asse (plural asses)
* Obsolete spelling of ass.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

asse (plural asses)
* (rare) A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).
    Synonym: asse fox
** 1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal‎:and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).
** 1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10‎, 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, New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox

### References

* ↑ Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900 (1890) Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes : a monograph of the Canidae‎

### References

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

### Anagrams

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

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* assu, essen, ässe, ässä

### Etymology

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

### Verb

asse
* (Carcoforo) to eat

### References

* 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

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

asse m (plural asses)
* a type of pickaxe used in tunneling

### Further reading

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

## Ingrian

Spatial inflection of asse :
| →○ | illative | asse |
| ○ | inessive | as |
| ○→ | elative | ast |

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

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

### Postposition

asse (+ illative or allative)
* (of time) up to, until
* (of distance or motion) all the way to
asse (+ elative or ablative)
* (of time) ever since
* (of distance or motion) all the way from

#### Synonyms

* saa, nasse, nas, nast, as, ast

#### Derived terms

* nasse

### References

* 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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈas.se/
* Rhymes: -asse
* Hyphenation: às‧se

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

asse f (plural assi)
* board (of wood)
    Synonyms: pancone, tavola
* beam (gymnastic)

### Etymology 2

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

#### Noun

asse m (plural assi)
* axle
* (mathematics, physics) axis
* (anatomy) axis (vertebra)
    Synonym: epistrofeo

##### Derived terms

* assiale

### Etymology 3

From Latin as.

#### Noun

asse f (plural assi)
* (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

### Anagrams

* -essa, essa

## Latin
### Noun

asse
* ablative singular of as

## Lule Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

### Noun

asse
* inner/meat-side of a skin

#### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English assa.

#### Alternative forms

* as

#### Noun

asse (plural assen or asses)
* ass, donkey

##### Descendants

* English: ass
* Yola: ess

##### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

asse
* Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* assa

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-sādo-syos.

### Adjective

asse (comparative assu)
* easy

#### Declension

io/iā-stem :
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | assae | assae | assae |
| Vocative | assai | assae | assae |
| Accusative | assae | assai | assae |
| Genitive | assai | assae | assai |
| Dative | assu | assai | assu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | Feminine/neuter |
| Nominative | assai | assai | assai |
| Vocative | assai assu* | assai | assai |
| Accusative | assai assu* | assai | assai |
| Genitive | assae | assae | assae |
| Dative | assaib | assaib | assaib |
| Notes | * when substantivized | * when substantivized | * when substantivized |

#### Derived terms

* anse

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sādo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318

### Further reading

* 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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* अस्से (Devanagari script)
* অস্সে (Bengali script)
* අස‍්සෙ (Sinhalese script)
* အဿေ or ဢသ်သေ (Burmese script)
* อสฺเส or อัสเส (Thai script)
* ᩋᩔᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ອສ຺ເສ or ອັສເສ (Lao script)
* អស្សេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Noun

asse
* locative singular of assa
* accusative plural of assa

## Pite Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ësē.

### Noun

asse
* inner/meat-side of a skin

#### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Verb

asse
* inflection of assar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative