asen

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Abenaki

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Noun

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asen (inanimate, plural asenal)

  1. a rock, a stone

Asturian

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Verb

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asen

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of asar

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish asnæ, from Old Norse asni, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Largely replaced by Middle Low German esel, see æsel. Cognates include Swedish åsna, Icelandic asni and Faroese asni.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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asen (singular definite asnet, plural indefinite asner)

  1. Used as a mild insult to or about a person whom one envies or harbors a certain dislike for.
  2. (dated) donkey, ass, (only used as a comparison).
    stædig som et asen
    stubborn as a mule

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Noun

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asen c

  1. definite singular of as

References

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Galician

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Verb

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asen

  1. inflection of asar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse asni, from Latin asinus.

Noun

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asen n (definite singular asenet, indefinite plural asen, definite plural asena)

  1. donkey, ass
    Synonym: esel

Etymology 2

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Perfect participle of asa.

Adjective

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asen (neuter ase, definite singular and plural asne, comparative asnare, indefinite superlative asnast, definite superlative asnaste)

  1. angry
  2. naggy, noisy

Participle

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asen

  1. past participle of asa

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin asinus.

Noun

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asen m (plural asens)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) (male) donkey, ass

Coordinate terms

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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asen

  1. inflection of asar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
  2. third-person plural present indicative of asir

Swedish

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Noun

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asen

  1. definite singular of as c (one of the Æsir (Old Norse gods))
  2. definite plural of as n (carrion, carcass; asshole)

Anagrams

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Vietnamese

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Chemical element
As
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Etymology

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From French arsenic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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asen

  1. arsenic

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh assen, from Proto-Brythonic *asen (compare Old Cornish asen, Middle Breton asen), from Latin asina.

Noun

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asen f (plural asennod)

  1. she-ass, jenny
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Celtic *astonion (compare Cornish asenn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone) (compare Irish easna, Latin os, Albanian asht). Doublet of ais, related to asgwrn.

Noun

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asen f (plural asennau)

  1. rib (curved bone)
Synonyms
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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
asen unchanged unchanged hasen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.