Etymology

assage

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Today it means: Ass, in the sense of buttocks, and in related idioms. Full definition →

English ass ← Middle English ars ← Old English ears
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁órs-o-s
  2. Proto-Germanic*arsaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*ars
  4. Old Englishears
  5. Middle Englishars
  6. Englishass
  7. English todayassage

From ass + -age.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.