ast

Verb

ast

1. Eye dialect spelling of asked, simple past tense and past participle of ask
   • 1937, w:John Steinbeck, w:Of Mice and Men, Penguin Books Limited (2000) →ISBN:

     Curley said, "Well, I didn't mean nothing, Slim. I just ast you."

   • 1988 October 21, Bryan Miller, “Strangers in a Train Station”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     I just ast her.

Anagrams

• ATS, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., T.A.s, TA's, TAS, TAs, TSA, Tas, Tas., at's, ats, sat, sat., sta, tas

Noun

ast m (plural éste)

1. branch of a conifer

References

• “ast” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ast/

Conjunction

ast

1. but, yet

References

• ast in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ast in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Alternative forms

• (Courland) astõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *astudak.

Verb

ast

1. step

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *astaz

Noun

ast m

1. branch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *astaz

Noun

ast m

1. branch