FromProto-Germanic*askaz, whence also Old Englishæsc, Old High Germanask.

For the semantic shift from "tree" to "container" compare Latinbuxus,buxis (whence Englishbox,boxwood).

askr m (genitiveasks,pluralaskar)

1. ash (tree)
   • Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 1-4, in1867, S. Bugge,Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page4:

     Ask veit ek standa / heitir Yggdrasill / hár baðmr, ausinn / hvíta auri;[…]

     I know anash stands / named Yggdrasill / a high tree, washed / with white mud; […]

2. wooden vessel or dish

• Icelandic:askur
• Faroese:askur
• Norwegian Nynorsk:ask
• Old Swedish:asker,ᛆᛋᚴᚽᚱ(Runic)
  • Swedish:ask
    • → Finnish:aski
• Old Danish:ask
  • Danish:ask
    • Norwegian Bokmål:ask
• Gutnish:ask,äsk
• → Old East Slavic:а́скъ(áskŭ),ꙗ́скъ(jáskŭ)
  • Old Ruthenian:ꙗ́щъ(jášč)
    • ⇒ Old Ruthenian:ꙗ́щикъ(jáščik)
      • Belarusian:я́шчык(jáščyk)(dialectal)
      • Ukrainian:я́щик(jáščyk)
  • ⇒ Middle Russian:ꙗ́щїк(jáščik)
    • Russian:я́щик(jáščik)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “askr”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

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• non:Olive family plants
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