Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/askǭ

Etymology
Usually connected to, with an suffix; compare 🇨🇬. In view of the voiced cluster in 🇨🇬, Kroonen suggests a compound of +, the first element of which is based on 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, both “to dry up”. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, which could point to a root or compound.

Noun

 * 1) ash, ashes

Inflection
Verner alternation was preserved in this noun, so that some forms had the stem *azg-; however, the distribution of the alternants is currently unknown.