sasse

See also: Sasse and sassé

English

Etymology

Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).

Noun

sasse (plural sasses)

  1. (obsolete) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
    • 1662 January 25, Pepys, Samuel, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 186:
      Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sasse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sas/

Verb

sasse

  1. inflection of sasser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sësē.

Noun

sasse

  1. sleeve

Inflection
Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative sasse
Genitive sase
Singular Plural
Nominative sasse sase
Accusative sasev sasijt
Genitive sase sasij
Illative sassáj sasijda
Inessive sasen sasijn
Elative sases sasijs
Comitative sasijn sasij
Abessive sasedagá
sasedagi		 sasijdagá
sasijdagi
Essive sassen
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person sassám sassáma sassáma
2nd person sassát sassáda sassáda
3rd person sasses sasseska sassesa

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀲𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • सस्से (Devanagari script)
  • সস্সে (Bengali script)
  • සස‍්සෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • သဿေ or သသ်သေ (Burmese script)
  • สสฺเส or สัสเส (Thai script)
  • ᩈᩔᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ສສ຺ເສ or ສັສເສ (Lao script)
  • សស្សេ (Khmer script)

Noun

sasse

  1. locative singular of sassa (“crop”)

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sësē.

Noun

sasse

  1. sleeve

Inflection
Even e-stem, ss-s gradation
Nominative sasse
Genitive sase
Singular Plural
Nominative sasse sase
Accusative sasev sisijt
Genitive sase sisij
Illative sassáj sisijda
Inessive sasen sisijn
Elative sasest
sases		 sisijst
sisijs
Comitative sisijn sisij
Essive sassen

Further reading
  • sasse in Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje (“Pite Sami word list”)
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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