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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 6 points 3 months ago

Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask

So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.