How did the word ass become a word for buttocks?

This is more interesting than you would think it would be. As the other answerers have said, yes, it comes from the word “arse”, which came from the Old English ærs, “buttocks”. read more

Ass in the sense of buttocks comes from earlier arse, from Old English ærs, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Modern German Arsch, Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers, Ancient Greek ὄρρος, “ass, butt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos. read more

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