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Ask

proper nounproper nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.

Etymology

From Old Norse Askr, from askr (“ash tree”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Swedish.

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Ask, from ask (“ash tree”), ultimately also from askr (“ash tree”). Doublet of Ash.

Forms

plural
Asks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).