ashen

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Etymology 1

From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”).

Adjective

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

  1. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
    An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”), equivalent to ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”).

Adjective

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

  1. Of or resembling ashes.
    A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.
  2. Ash-colored; pale; anemic
    His ashen face belied his claims of good health.
  3. Appalled; upset.
  4. Anaemic.
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Etymology 3

From ash +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

ashen (third-person singular simple present ashens, present participle ashening, simple past and past participle ashened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
  2. (ambitransitive) To make or become pale

Anagrams

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Etymology

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ashen

  1. ashes[2]
    Synonym: ameal

References

  1. ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 154
  2. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23
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