shass

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

shass

1. (Ireland, possibly obsolete) A heap of sheaves (straw).
   • 1875, Patrick Kennedy, The Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford:

     If there were any sheaves left, they composed a compact shass in the end, and the long ladder, strewn with straw, and resting on stones, or other supports, lay [...] opposite the shass.

   • 1913, James Murphy, Convict No. 25; Or, the Clearances of Westmeath: A Story of the Whitefeet:

     She was speaking at the time lower than a whisper, so that I had to kneel beside her on the ground—she was lying on a shass ov straw—an' bend my face down to her's to hear her.

Manx

Etymology

Back-formation from the verbal noun shassoo.

Verb

shass (verbal noun shassoo)

1. to stand
2. ~ noi to object, resist, withstand

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
shass	hass after "yn", çhass	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.