User talk:2.29.69.171

February 2023

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to Ash, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:51, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed this etymology because it is obviously bollocks, like almost every other supposed English derivation from Hebrew. See the much more reliable OED, for example:

A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English asce, axe is cognate with Old Norse aska, Danish aske, Old High German asgâ, ascâ, Middle High German asche, Gothic azgo, Old Germanic *azgôn. The northern aske was probably the Norse word; thence also asse, like Scots buss for busk.

Wiktionary has the equivalent. 2.29.69.171 (talk) 15:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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