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-.
Ancestry of “wax”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old English | weax | wax |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | wahs | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | wahsą | wax |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | woḱ-so- | — |