Äsche

From Old High German asca, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ. Cognate with German Asche, Dutch as, English ash, Swedish aska.

Äsche f

1. (Uri) ash, ashes

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 13.

From Middle High German asche m, from Old High German asco, probably derived from asca (“ash, ashes”), whence modern German Asche, due to the fish's grey colour. The umlaut is sometimes explained as stemming from a plural, but the Middle High German noun had weak declension and thus no umlaut. Therefore more probably from the secondary umlaut triggered by following -sch-, which occurs throughout western dialects of High German. Standardised here to avoid the homophony with Asche above, as also in the unrelated Esche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʃə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃə
• Homophone: Esche

Äsche f (genitive Äsche, plural Äschen)

1. grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

   Synonym: Europäische Äsche f

• “Äsche” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ʃə/
• (Southeast Limburgish) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ʃə/
• Rhymes: -æʃə, -ɛʃə

Äsche pl (German-based spelling)

1. plural of Äsch