åska

See also: aska

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Alternative forms

oska (Late Modern Swedish)

Etymology

From Early Modern Swedish variants: āska, åscka, åskja, oschia, åsikia, åsekia, åsäckia, åsökia, åsökja, asökia (compare dialectal åseka), from Old Swedish āsikkia (nominative), āsækyu (oblique). Compound of ås (“Æsir (singular), Norse god”) +‎ ökja (“carting”), the latter, an older unstandardised variant of äcka (“carting”), initially a Proto-Norse verbal noun to åka (“to go, going”). No cognate is attested in Old West Norse, but a potential form would be *áseykja, consisting of ás (“Æsir (singular), Norse god”) +‎ eykja (“carting”).

The word may have started as a noa-name. It refers to the Norse god Thor driving around in his chariot above the clouds and killing giants with his hammer Mjölnir, which according to myth produced the sound of thunder as he hit them.

Noun

åska c

thunder (the sound caused by lightning)
Synonyms: dunder, (dated or poetic) tordön
lightning (discharge of atmospheric electricity)

Usage notes

Usually uncountable. The plural forms åskor and åskorna occur in poetic language, but are rare.

Declension

Declension of *åska*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	åska	åskas
singular	definite	åskan	åskans
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

Derived terms

Verb

åska (present åskar, preterite åskade, supine åskat, imperative åska)

(impersonal, intransitive) to thunder

Conjugation

Conjugation of *åska* (weak)
	active		passive
infinitive	åska		—
supine	åskat		—
imperative	åska		—
imper. plural¹	åsken		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	åskar	åskade	—	—
ind. plural¹	åska	åskade	—	—
subjunctive²	åske	åskade	—	—

present participle		åskande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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