Esche

Bedeutung (English)

Noun

ash (tree)

Name

Eš (a village in the Czech Republic)

Synonyms

Eschenholz

gemeine Esche

gewöhnliche Esche

Fraxinus

hohe Esche

eschen

Eschenbaum

Dialekte

Basel-Landschaft

äsche

Basel-Landschaft

esche

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɛʃə/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Mittelhochdeutsch: esche

Inherited from Althochdeutsch: asca

In summary

From Middle High German esche f, asch m, from Old High German asca f, asc m, from Proto-West Germanic *ask.
The umlaut can be explained here from the plural of the masculine noun, though it may also be due to the secondary umlaut triggered by following -sch- which is found throughout western dialects of High German (compare Äsche, where this is probably the cause of the umlaut).