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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL5 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Ask”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
AskEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Old Norse Askr, from askr (“ash tree”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗AskEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Borrowed from Swedish Ask, from ask (“ash tree”), ultimately also from askr (“ash tree”). Doublet of Ash.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗askEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂isḱéti Proto-Germanic *iskaną Proto-Germanic *aiskaz Proto-West Germanic *aisk Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn Old English āscian Middle English asken English ask From Middle English asken, axen, from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗askEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂isḱéti Proto-Germanic *iskaną Proto-Germanic *aiskaz Proto-West Germanic *aisk Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn Old English āscian Middle English asken English ask From Middle English asken, axen, from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗askEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis Proto-Germanic *agiz Proto-West Germanic *agi Proto-Indo-European *tek-der. Proto-Germanic *þehsaną Proto-West Germanic *þehsan Proto-West Germanic *-jā ? Proto-West Germanic *agiþahsijā Old English āþexe Middle English aske English ask From Middle English aske, arske, ascre, from Old English āþexe (“lizard, newt”), from Proto-West Germanic *agiþahsijā (“lizard”), a compound of *agiz (“snake, lizard”) + *þahsuz (“badger”). Cognate of German Echse (“lizard”).
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
hogan
An English borrowing of Navajo hooghan, a home or dwelling term with specific Diné cultural reference.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
person
An individual human being, historically from Latin persōna, whose older semantic field includes theatrical mask, character, and role.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Latin / Indo-European
persōna
actor’s mask; role; character; person
- DATE
- Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
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Etruscan / Tyrsenian
phersu
masked figure or ritual character
- DATE
- Etruscan, 6th century BCE
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Ancient Greek / Indo-European
πρόσωπον
prósōponface; countenance; mask; character
- DATE
- Ancient Greek
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Beyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No deeper Athabaskan reconstruction is promoted in this dossier.
- DATE
- before the reviewed Navajo form
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
openprobableposition text
Does persōna securely mean a mask through which sound passes?
No secure reviewed etymology derives it as Latin per plus sonāre. The historical sources instead report a probable Etruscan connection and treat the origin as difficult.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is hatask a separate unrelated verb?
No on the reviewed evidence. ONP and Cleasby treat the middle-voice, reflexive, and reciprocal constructions inside the hata paradigm.
resolvedestablishedposition text
What does the surviving token mean in context?
It asks whether the audience is angry at Jesus. Project Wulfila aligns hatizoþ with Greek χολᾶτε and English “are ye angry at me”; Streitberg and Wright gloss the verb with anger rather than a general act of hating.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 117GRADE Acontrarian claim
A person was a mask and role before the modern individual.
Latin persōna carries mask, role, and character senses; a probable Etruscan phersu connection and proposed Greek route remain visibly uncertain.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “ask.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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