Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wahsąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_wahsą
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*wáśkanwax*woḱsoidemvelumsailcloth
nounneutera-stemwaxOf 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.