Ax
Pronunciation
- enPR: ăks, IPA: /æks/
- Rhymes: -æks
Origin 1
See axe.
Verb
- Alternative spelling of axe
Origin 2
Old English acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.
Verb
- (now dialectal or nonstandard) Alternative form of ask
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
- 1979, Verna Mae Slone, What My Heart Wants to Tell, Kentucky 1988, p. 18:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’----