अश्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐɕ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɐɕ/

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach, attain”). Cognate with English enough.

• नश् (naś)

अश् • (aś)

1. to reach, obtain, come to, arrive at
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 01.154.05:

     tád asya priyám abhí pā́tho aśyāṃ
     náro yátra devayávo mádanti
     urukramásya sá hí bándhur itthā
     víṣṇoḥ padé paramé mádhva útsaḥ

     Might I reach that dear cattle-pen of his, where men seeking the gods find elation, for exactly that is the bond to the wide-striding one: the wellspring of mead in the highest step of Viṣṇu.

2. to get, gain, obtain
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 01.001.03:

     agnínā rayím aśnavat
     póṣam evá divé-dive
     yaśásaṃ vīrávattamam

     By Agni may one obtain wealth and prosperity every day, glorious and richest in heroes.)

3. to master

• अशन (aś, “reaching, reaching across”)
• अशिन् (aś, “far-reaching, long-lasting”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “अश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0112/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 04
• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “अश्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 136
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 27-8
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “316”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 316
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 395

From a putative Proto-Indo-Iranian *HaćH- (“to eat”), with further origin uncertain; compare perhaps Persian آش‎ (âš, “a thick type of soup”). Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱh₃- (“to eat”), with tentative cognates including Old Norse æja (“to graze, rest and eat”) and agn (“fish bait”), as well as Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

अश् • (aś)

1. to eat, consume, come to, arrive at
2. to get, gain, obtain

• Monier Williams (1899), “अश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0112/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 05
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 136
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 167-8
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “18”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 18