Where does “וואַקסן” come from?
וואַקסן (Yiddish) comes from Middle High German wahsen, from Old High German wahsan, from Proto-West Germanic wahsan, from Proto-Germanic wahsijaną, from Indo-European *h₂weks-.
וואַקסן (Yiddish): to grow, to wax
Ancestry of “וואַקסן”, step by step