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ax

See also: Ax, AX, -ax, .ax, ax̱, a꞉x, ˀa·x, and ах

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: ăks, IPA(key): /æks/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

ax (plural axes)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of axe

Verb edit

ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of axe

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English axen, aksen, axien, from Old English ācsian and āxian, showing metathesis from āscian. Ax/aks was common in literary works until about 1600.

Verb edit

ax (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

  1. (now nonstandard or dialectical, especially African-American Vernacular, MLE and Bermuda) Alternative form of ask
Usage notes edit
  • This and related forms of ask have been used since Old English and were long employed in literature and prestige dialects. Chaucer used ask, ax, and axe interchangeably. They remain in use in some rural areas of Britain and Appalachia but are now regarded as nonstandard and are primarily associated with AAVE dialects in the US and MLE or West Country dialects in the UK, as well as being in some Irish English dialects, and sometimes in New Zealand, especially among Maori English speakers.

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl edit

Adverb edit

ax

  1. not

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse ax.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ax n (genitive singular ax, nominative plural öx)

  1. ear (of corn)

Declension edit

declension of ax
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ax axið öx öxin
accusative ax axið öx öxin
dative axi axinu öxum öxunum
genitive ax axins axa axanna

Jamaican Creole edit

Verb edit

ax

  1. Alternative spelling of aks.
    • 2006, Amina Blackwood-Meeks, “Aiming at your dreams”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[2]:
      “Well she sey one a de man dem come right up to har car window an show har fe him sign wid him finga, order har outa de plaza like sey it was him personal yaad an ax har if she tink sey chu hooman a go tun Prime Minista she can jus come park which part she have a mind. […] ”
      So she said one of the men walked right up to her car window and pointed at his sign with his finger and ordered her to leave the plaza as if it were his own home. He asked her if she thought that the fact that a woman was going to become Prime Minister that she could just park anywhere she wanted to. […]

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English æx, æcs, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ax (plural axes)

  2. An axe (tool)
  3. An axe (weapon)
Descendants edit
  • English: axe, ax
  • Scots: aix
References edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old English eax, from Proto-Germanic *ahsu.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ax (plural axes)

  2. (rare) An axle, axletree, pole
Derived terms edit
References edit

Northern Kurdish edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Persian خاک (xâk, “earth, soil, dust”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to be dry”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ax f (Arabic spelling ئاخ)

  1. dirt, ground, soil, earth
    Synonyms: erd, xwelî
  2. dust
    Synonym: xubar
  3. matter

Declension edit

Declension of ax
Definite feminine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative ax ax
Construct axa axên
Oblique axê axan
Demonstrative oblique wê axê wan axan
Vocative axê axino
Indefinite feminine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative axek axin
Construct axeke axine
Oblique axekê axinan

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “ax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 14

Old French edit

Contraction edit

ax

  1. Contraction of a + les (to the)

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *ahsą, from *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”).

Noun edit

ax n (genitive ax, plural ǫx)

  1. ear (of corn)

Declension edit

  Declension of ax (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ax axit ǫx ǫxin
accusative ax axit ǫx ǫxin
dative axi axinu ǫxum ǫxunum
genitive ax axins axa axanna

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: ax
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aks
  • Norwegian Bokmål: aks
  • Old Swedish: ax
    • Swedish: ax
  • Danish: aks

References edit

“ax”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French axe, from Latin axis.

Noun edit

ax n (plural axe)

  1. axle
  2. axis

Declension edit

Declension of ax
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ax axul (niște) axe axele
genitive/dative (unui) ax axului (unor) axe axelor
vocative axule axelor

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse ax.

Noun edit

ax n

  1. an ear (fruiting body of a grain plant)

Declension edit

Declension of ax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ax axet ax axen
Genitive ax axets ax axens

Verb edit

ax (present ax, preterite ax, supine ax, imperative ax)

  1. (slang) Alternative form of axa

References edit

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