Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Made of wax.
verb
To coat with wax or a similar material. · To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. · Beeswax (a wax secreted by bees). · Earwax (a wax secreted by the ears). · Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), German Low German Wass (“wax”), Luxembourgish Wuess (“wax”), Vilamovian wāhs (“wax”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voks (“wax”), Faroese vaks (“wax”), Icelandic, Swedish vax (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwaxenm
- Inherited-form mentionweaxang
- Inherited-form mention*wahsągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*woḱ-so-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionWoaksstq · wax
- Cognate mentionwaaksfy · wax
- Cognate mentionwasnl · wax
- Cognate mentionWachsde · wax
- Cognate mentionWuesslb · wax
- Cognate mentionwāhswym · wax
- Cognate mentionvoksnn · wax
- Cognate mentionvaksfo · wax
- Cognate mentionvaxsv · wax
- Cognate mentionvaškaslt · wax
- Cognate mention*voskъsla-pro · wax
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