Where does “wox” come from?

wox (Old Danish) comes from Old Norse vax, from Proto-Germanic wahsą, from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so-.

Ancestry of “wox”, step by step

wox traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Norse vax

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsevax—
2Proto-Germanicwahsąwax
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwoḱ-so-—

via Proto-Algonquian maθkwa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Algonquianmaθkwabear

Words derived from “wox”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so- →Every word from Proto-Germanic wahsą →Every word from Old Norse vax →