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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wahsą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáśkan (“wax”), according to Pokorny, both from Proto-Indo-European *wokso, *wos-ko- (“wax”).[1] However, compare Latin velum (“sailcloth”) and Dutch wiek (“windmill sail”), from *weg- (“to weave”).[2] It could instead be from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwɑx.sɑ̃/

Noun

*wahsą n

  1. wax

Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *wahsą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *wahsą *wahsō
vocative *wahsą *wahsō
accusative *wahsą *wahsō
genitive *wahsas, *wahsis *wahsǫ̂
dative *wahsai *wahsamaz
instrumental *wahsō *wahsamiz

Descendants
  • Old English: weax, wæx, wex
    • Middle English: wax, vax, vex, waxe, waxs, wex, wexe, wexs
      • English: wax
      • Scots: wax
  • Old Frisian: wax
    • Saterland Frisian: Woaks
    • West Frisian: waaks, waachs
  • Old Saxon: wahs
    • Middle Low German: was
      • German Low German: Wass
  • Old Dutch: wahs
  • Old High German: wahs
    • Middle High German: wahs
      • Cimbrian: baks
      • German: Wachs
        • → Russian: вакса (vaksa)
          • → Armenian: վաքս (vakʻs), վակս (vaks)
          • → Persian: واکس (vâks)
      • Luxembourgish: Wuess
      • Yiddish: וואַקס (vaks)
  • Old Norse: vax
  • → Proto-Finnic: *vaha (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1180, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1180
  2. van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “was”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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