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Definitions and meaning of ax

ax

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ăks, IPA(key): /æks/
  • Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

Noun

ax (plural axes)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of axe

Verb

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

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

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
    • 2006 Sept. 17, David Mills, "Soft Eyes", The Wire, 00:19:01:
      Wise: Your boy left here a while ago
      Johnson: I ain' lookin' for him. He at his granmother's. I wanted to ax you somethin'.
Usage notes
  • 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.

References

  • McWhorter, John. "The 'Ax' versus 'Ask' Question", LA Times, 19 Jan. 2014.

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Adverb

ax

  1. not

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ax.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /axs/, /aks/

Noun

ax n (genitive singular ax, nominative plural öx)

  1. ear (of corn)

Declension

Jamaican Creole

Verb

ax

  1. Alternative spelling of aks.

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • axe, ex, exe
  • (early) æxæ, æxe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aks/
  • Rhymes: -aks

Noun

ax (plural axes)

  2. An axe (tool)
  3. An axe (weapon)
Descendants
  • English: axe, ax
  • Scots: aix
References
  • “ax(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • ȝex

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aks/
  • Rhymes: -aks

Noun

ax (plural axes)

  2. (rare) An axle, axletree, pole
Derived terms
  • extre
References
  • “ax(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːx/

Noun

ax f (Arabic spelling ئاخ)

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

Declension

Derived terms

  • binax

References

  • 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

Contraction

ax

  1. Contraction of a + les (to the)

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

ax n (genitive ax, plural ǫx)

  1. ear (of corn)

Declension

Descendants

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French axe, from Latin axis.

Noun

ax n (plural axe)

  1. axle
  2. axis

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ax.

Noun

ax n

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

Declension

Verb

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

  1. (slang) Alternative form of axa

References

  • ax in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • ax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • ax in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • Slangopedia

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