Noun: æsce
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | æsċe; ǣsċe |
| Plural | ascan; ǣsċan |
Genitive
| Singular | ascan; ǣsċan |
| Plural | ascena; ǣsċena |
Dative
| Singular | ascan; ǣsċan |
| Plural | ascum; ǣsċum |
Accusative
| Singular | ascan; ǣsċan |
| Plural | ascan; ǣsċan |
Sample Sentences
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Ġē syndon dust and acsan and ysela. (Ye are dust and ash and cinder.) [c. 730–740, Felix, Life of St. Guthlac, 5:]
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Æfter ðisum ġebede, hē ābād on ðām leġere āne fēawa dagas, mid fefore ġewǣht, þurh wacolon ġebedum, on flōre liċġende, bestrēowod mid axum, on stīðre hǣran, upāhafenum ēagum and handum tō heofenum, and ne ġeswāc his ġebeda ōðþæt hē sawlode. (After this prayer, he remained in sickness for a few days, weakened by fever, in watchful prayer, lying on the floor, bestrewn with ashes, in stiff sackcloth, with eyes and hands turned up toward heaven, and he did not stop his prayers until he passed away.)
Nouns inflected like æsce
æsce,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *askǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *askā
5. Old English æsce
6. From Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ. Cognate with Old Frisian *eske, Old Saxon aska, Old High German asca, Old Norse aska, Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 (azgō). See: Old Norse Nouns '
aska', Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉'.
Verbs referencing "æsce"
Middle English Nouns
asshe.
Translations