*wahsą

Runic: ᚹᚨᚺᛊᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈwɑx.sɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

wax

Etymology

Of somewhat disputed origin. Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáśkan (‘wax’), from Proto-Indo-European *woḱso (‘idem’), which was originally reconstructed by Pokorny as *wokso, *wos-ko-. However, others have compared the terms with Latin velum (‘sailcloth’) and Dutch wiek (‘windmill sail’), from *weg- (‘to weave’) (though the semantic link appears tenuous). The Germanic and Balto-Slavic terms could instead be from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	wahsą	wahsō
Acc.	wahsą	wahsō
Gen.	wahsas, wahsis	wahsǫ̂
Dat.	wahsai	wahsamaz
Inst.	wahsō	wahsamiz
Voc.	wahsą	wahsō

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Descendants

weax (Old English)
- wax, vax, vex, waxe, waxs, wex, wexe, wexs (Middle English)
  - wax (English)
  - wax (Scots)
wæx (Old English)
- wax, vax, vex, waxe, waxs, wex, wexe, wexs (Middle English)
  - wax (English)
  - wax (Scots)
wex (Old English)
- wax, vax, vex, waxe, waxs, wex, wexe, wexs (Middle English)
  - wax (English)
  - wax (Scots)
wax (Old Frisian)
- Woaks (Saterland Frisian)
- waaks, waachs (West Frisian)
wahs (Old Saxon)
- was (Middle Low German)
  - Wass (German Low German)
wahs (Old Dutch)
- was (Middle Dutch)
  - was (Dutch)
    - was (Afrikaans)
wahs (Old High German)
- wahs (Middle High German)
  - baks (Cimbrian)
  - Wuess (Luxembourgish)
  - wāhs (Vilamovian)
  - וואַקס (vaks) (Yiddish)
wahs (Old High German)
- wahs (Middle High German)
  - Wachs (German)
    - вакса (vaksa) (Russian)
      - վաքս (vakʻs), վակս (vaks) (Armenian)
      - واکس (vâks) (Persian)
vax (Old Norse)
- waks (Elfdalian)
- vaks (Faroese)
- vax (Gutnish)
- vax (Icelandic)
- ?, voks (Norwegian)
vax (Old Norse)
- wax, wox (Old Danish)
  - voks (Danish)
vax (Old Norse)
- vax (Old Swedish)
  - vax (Swedish)
*vaha (Proto-Finnic)

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