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Where does “Wuess” come from?

Wuess (Luxembourgish) comes from Old High German wahs, from Proto-Germanic wahsą, from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so-.

Wuess (Luxembourgish): wax

Definitions

  1. wax

Ancestry of “Wuess”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanwahswax
2Proto-Germanicwahsąwax
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwoḱ-so-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so- →