æs

See also: äs, aes, AES, áes, a**es, and -aes

Icelandic

From Old Norse æs, from Proto-Germanic *ansijō. Cognate with Latin ānsa (“handle”).

æs f (genitive singular æsar, nominative plural æsar)

Almost exclusively used in the accusative plural in the adverbial phrase út í æsar (“in detail, thoroughly”).

declension of æs

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
f-s1	singular		plural
nominative	æs	æsin	æsar	æsarnar
accusative	æs	æsina	æsar	æsarnar
dative	æs	æsinni	æsum	æsunum
genitive	æsar	æsarinnar	æsa	æsanna

“æs” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

From Proto-Germanic *ēsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēdsto-. Cognate with West Frisian ies (“bait, carrion”), Dutch aas (“bait, carrion”) and German Aas (“bait, carrion”).

ǣs n

Declension of æs (strong a-stem)

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ǣs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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