Asche
See also: asche and Äsche
German
Etymology
From Middle High German asche, from Old High German asca, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ. Compare Low German Asch, Dutch as, English ash, Danish aske, Swedish aska.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaʃə]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aʃə
Noun
Asche f (genitive Asche, plural Aschen)
- ash; ashes
- (colloquial) money
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Geld
Declension
Declension of Asche [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Asche | die | Aschen |
genitive | einer | der | Asche | der | Aschen |
dative | einer | der | Asche | den | Aschen |
accusative | eine | die | Asche | die | Aschen |
Derived terms
- Aschenputtel, Aschenbrödel
Related terms
- aschblond, aschenfarbig, aschgrau, aschig
Further reading
- “Asche” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Asche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Asche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Asche” in Duden online
Asche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Asche”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891