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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *askaz, whence also Old English æsc, Old High German ask.
For the semantic shift from "tree" to "container" compare Latin buxus, buxis (whence English box, boxwood).
Noun
askr m (genitive asks, plural askar)
- ash (tree)
- Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 1-4, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:
Ask veit ek standa / heitir Yggdrasill / hár baðmr, ausinn / hvíta auri; - I know an ash stands / named Yggdrasill / a high tree, washed / with white mud;
- wooden vessel or dish
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “askr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive