acse

Old English

Etymology

Alteration by metathesis of asċe, itself a variant with extended a-restoration of æsċe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.se/

Noun

acse f

Alternative form of æsċe (“ash”)
Ġē syndon dust and acsan and ysela. [Guthl. 5; Gdwin. 38, 23]
Ye are dust and ash and cinder.

Declension

Declension of acse (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	acse	acsan
accusative	acsan	acsan
genitive	acsan	acsena
dative	acsan	acsum

Further reading

Joseph Bosworth (1898) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. “acse”, page 5/2

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