wahsen

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German wahsan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną.

Verb

wahsen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present wehset, past tense wuohs, past participle gewahsen, past subjunctive wüehse, auxiliary sîn)

  1. to grow
    Er wuohs manlîch starc.He grew up manly strong.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Central Franconian: wahße, wahsse, waße, waaße; wase; wohße, wohße, wohsse, woße
    Hunsrik: wachse
  • Cimbrian: baksan
  • German: wachsen
  • Luxembourgish: wuessen
  • Yiddish: וואַקסן (vaksn)

References

  • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “wahsen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
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