Aas

• The place in France is from Occitan Aas, from Basque/Aquitanian aitz (“ridge, rocky point”).
• As a Norwegian and Swedish surname, from the noun ås (“ridge”).

Aas

1. A village in southwest France, in the Ossau valley of the Pyrenees.
2. A surname from Norwegian.

• Michel Grosclaude (préf. Pierre Bec), Dictionnaire toponymique des communes du Béarn, Pau, Escòla Gaston Febus, février 1991, 416 p.

• ASA, Asa, SAA

From Middle High German ās (“carrion, bait”), from Old High German *ās, from Proto-Germanic *ēsą. Later merged with Middle High German āȥ (“food”), from Old High German āȥ, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ētą. Both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /aːs/

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• Rhymes: -aːs
• Homophone: aß

Aas n (strong, genitive Aases, plural Aase or Äser)

1. (usually uncountable, collective, less often countable) carrion (perished animal, especially as food for scavengers)

   Synonyms: (countable) Kadaver, Tierleiche

2. (archaic) bait

   Synonym: Köder

3. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) a word for a person or animal, often implying insubordination and/or cunning, but also used affectionately for someone cheeky or shrewd

   ein raffiniertes, kleines Aas ― a cunning, little devil

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaʔas/

Aas n

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) genitive singular of Aa

• “Aas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Aas” in Duden online
• Aas on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aas”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891