vass

• bass (Mezzaselva)

From Middle High German vaz, from Old High German faz, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel, container”). Cognate with German Fass, Dutch vat, English vat, Icelandic fat.

vass n (plural vèssar, diminutive vèssle)

1. (Sette Comuni) vat, tub

   De baibar habent gabèsset au an vass gaplèttarakh. ― The women washed a tub of clothing.

• “bass” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

vass

1. imperative of vassa

• IPA^(key): /vas/

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From Old Swedish hvas, from Old Norse hvǫss, hvass, from Proto-Germanic *hwassaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷh₁dstós.

• hvass (obsolete)

vass (comparative vassare, superlative vassast)

1. sharp (able to cut easily)
2. (figuratively) sharp

   vass tunga

   sharp tongue

From Old Swedish vas, from Proto-Germanic *wassaz, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”).

vass c

1. (usually collectively) reed; reeds
   • 1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”‎^[1]:

     I Roslagens famn på den blommande ö, där vågorna klucka [old present tense plural, usually kluckar] mot strand, och vassarna vagga [old present tense plural, usually vaggar] och nyslaget hö, det doftar emot mig ibland.

     In Roslagen's embrace on the flowering island, where the waves lap ["cluck" – onomatopoeic] against shore [sic – indefinite], and the reeds [plural definite here] sway and of freshly mown hay, it wafts [smells pleasantly, "scents"] towards me sometimes [sic].

2. a clump of reeds
3. reed bed

• vasspipa
• vasstrå
• vassbädd

• säv (“club-rush; lakeshore bulrush”)

• vass in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• vass in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• savs