different between cass vs jass

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cassen, from Old French casser, from Late Latin cass?, from Latin cassus (“empty, hollow”), and perhaps influenced by quass? (“to shake, shatter”).

Verb

cass (third-person singular simple present casses, present participle cassing, simple past and past participle cassed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.

   •1687 James II/VII of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland Declaration of Indulgence  : "(...)Do therefore, with Advice and Consent aforesaid, Cass, Annul and Discharge all Oaths whatsoever, by which any of Our Subjects are incapacitated or disabled from holding Places, or Offices in Our said Kingdom (...)"

Etymology 2

Noun

cass

1. (computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.
   • 1985, Stephen Doyle, GCSE Computer Studies for You (page 214)

     STOCK CONTROL / CASS / DATASOFT / 12.81

   • 1988, PC Mag (volume 7, number 7, page 62)

     Radio Shaft color computer w/printer & cass. drive, several programs, $250.

Anagrams

• ASCs, CSAs, SACs, Sacs, sacs

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?s/

Noun

cass f (genitive singular coshey, plural cassyn)

1. foot, leg

Derived terms

• daa-chassagh, daa-choshagh
• yl-chassagh, yl-choshagh

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. (card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
   • 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:

     A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.

   • 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, p. 244:

     Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.

   • 2014, Donal McLaughlin, translating Arno Camenisch, Behind the Station:

     When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.

Further reading

• jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• An explanation of the card game's rules

Etymology 2

Obsolete and variant forms.

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of jazz
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 417:

     “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”

     “Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”

     “What do you call it?”

     “Jass.”

Icelandic

Noun

jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)

1. Alternative form of djass

Declension