Noun: asse
| Sg. | asse |
| Pl. | assen; asses; asse |
Genitive
| Sg. | asses; asse |
| Pl. | assene; asses |
Dative
Sample Sentences
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BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þᵗ poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe. (At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.) [c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]
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[…] as it is writũ / þe douȝtir of ſion .· nyle þou dꝛede / lo! þi kĩg comeþ ſittynge on an aſſe foole [translating pullum asinae] ([…] like it's been written: "Don't be scared, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming sitting on a donkey's colt.") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 12:15, folio 51, recto, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
Nouns inflected like asse
asse,
Etymology
From Old English assa, a back-formation from assen (“she-ass, female donkey”). See: Old English Nouns '
assa'.
Verbs referencing "asse"
English Nouns
ass.
Translations