Word Origin Summary

Achse is attested in German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *ahsuProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. ahseMiddle High Germaninherited from
3. ahsaOld High Germaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• akse

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• akse

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• abscisseakse

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root