Where does “wax” come from?

wax (Middle English) comes from Old English weax, from Proto-West Germanic wahs, from Proto-Germanic wahsą, from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so-.

wax (Middle English): wax beeswax, sealing wax, etc

Definitions

  1. wax beeswax, sealing wax, etc

Ancestry of “wax”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishweaxwax
2Proto-West Germanicwahs—
3Proto-Germanicwahsąwax
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwoḱ-so-—

Words derived from “wax”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so- →Every word from Proto-Germanic wahsą →Every word from Proto-West Germanic wahs →
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