*þahsuz

Runic: ᚦᚨᚺᛊᚢᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈθɑx.suz/

noun · masculine · u-stem

Meanings

badger

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *tótḱ-us, from *tetḱ- (‘to weave, braid, add, establish, construct’), likely owing to the badger's propensity to dig and thus construct tunnels. In this case, cognate with Latin texō (‘weave, braid, build, compose’), Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō) (tíktō), τέχνη (tékhnē), τέκτων (téktōn).

However, later scholarship rejects the above relation and, in light of Proto-Celtic *taskos, has been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *toskos (‘badger’), which Kroonen considers to be a loanword from some unidentified western European substrate.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	þahsuz	þahsiwiz
Acc.	þahsų	þahsunz
Gen.	þahsauz	þahsiwǫ̂
Dat.	þahsiwi	þahsumaz
Inst.	þahsū	þahsumiz
Voc.	þahsu	þahsiwiz

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Descendants

*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- taxus, taxō (Late Latin)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thas (Old Dutch)
  - das (Middle Dutch)
    - dasj (Limburgish)
    - das (West Flemish)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thas (Old Dutch)
  - das (Middle Dutch)
    - das (Dutch)
      - dās (Jersey Dutch)
      - das (West Frisian)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thas (Old Dutch)
  - das (Middle Dutch)
    - das (Dutch)
      - das, dassie (Afrikaans)
        
        dassie (English)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thaks (Old Frisian)
  - Taks (Saterland Frisian)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- dahs (Old High German)
  - dahs (Middle High German)
    - daks (Cimbrian)
    - Dachs (Hunsrik)
    - Duess (Luxembourgish)
    - דאַקס (daks) (Yiddish)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- dahs (Old High German)
  - dahs (Middle High German)
    - Dachs (German)
      - Dacks (German Low German)
      - Dachs (Luxembourgish)
      - Daks (Saterland Frisian)
*þahs (Proto-West Germanic)
- thahs (Old Saxon)
  - das, dasse (Middle Low German)
    - Dass (German Low German)
þax (Old Norse)
- taks (Danish)
- tax (Swedish)
þax (Old Norse)
- toks (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - svintoks (Norwegian Nynorsk)
þǫx (Old Norse)
- taks (Danish)
- tax (Swedish)
þǫx (Old Norse)
- toks (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - svintoks (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐍃 (*þahsus) (Gothic)
- *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐌺𐍃 (*þahsuks) (Gothic)
  - *taxūcus (Vulgar Latin)
    - taxugo, taxubo, taxudo, texugo, texudo, texubo (Aragonese)
    - tasugo, tajugo, tesugo (Spanish)
*𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐍃 (*þahsus) (Gothic)
- *𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌿𐌺𐍃 (*þahsuks) (Gothic)
  - *taxūcus (Vulgar Latin)
    - ? (Old Galician-Portuguese)
      - teixugo (Galician)
      - texugo, teixugo (Portuguese)

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