áss

• ássál

ás +‎ -j

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːʃː]
• Rhymes: -aːʃː

áss

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of ás

From Proto-Celtic *ɸāstom, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːs/

áss n

1. growth
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^a17

     Uisse in boill dó ass ón chiunn.

     [It is] proper for the members to grow from the head.

   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 68, pages 115-179:

     Ba erdath ⁊ ba lith mor iarum la Colum Cille ann dogress dona braithribh. Ass n-ingnama doib: ann nobithe tremsi oc aurcilliud ⁊ oc legcude usce trit. Feil na n-Airemon leisom insin fo bithin is ann for·centai a n-as.

     A great festivity and merrymaking was regularly allowed by Colum Cille thereafter to the brethren. The growth of the crops was given to them then: three months were spent in tending and watering them. He called that the Feast of the Ploughmen, because it was then that the crops reached their full growth.

2. verbal noun of ásaid (“to grow”)

• ásaid

• Middle Irish: ás
  • Irish: fás
  • Scottish Gaelic: fàs
  • Manx: aase

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *ansaz ("beam").

áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)

1. a thick pole, main beam (in a house)
2. (nautical) the yard of a sail

• ásstubbi m (“the stump of a beam”)

• Icelandic: ás
• Faroese: ásur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ås
• Norwegian Bokmål: ås
• Danish: ås
• Swedish: ås, takås

Likely from Proto-Germanic *amsaz (“shoulder”).

áss m (genitive áss, plural ásar)

1. a rocky ridge

• Icelandic: ás
• Faroese: ásur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ås
• Norwegian Bokmål: ås
• Elfdalian: ą̊s
• Swedish: ås
• Danish: ås

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “áss”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 46
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “áss”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 37; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Norse *ᚨᛊᚢᛉ (*asuʀ), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énsus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ens- (“to engender, beget”). Cognate with Old English ōs, Old Saxon ās, Old High German ans-, Latin Ansis pl (loaned from Gothic).

• ǫ́ss

áss m (genitive ásar, plural æsir)

2. (Germanic paganism) one of the gods, Æsir

• Icelandic: ás m
  • → Swedish: as c
    • → Finnish: aasa
  • → Danish: as c
• Faroese: ásur m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ås m
• Norwegian Bokmål: ås m
• → Swedish: ås c (learned)