wox
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Verb
wox
- (obsolete) simple past of wax (“to become”)
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 325:
- VVhereof when as the Gyant was aware, / He wox right blyth, as he had got thereby, / And laught ſo loud, that all his teeth wide bare [...]
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian *maθkwa (“bear”). Cognate with Gros Ventre was (“bear”).
Noun
wox anim (plural woxuu, vocative woxuun)
Verb
wox
- first/third-person singular past of waxen (“become”)
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book III, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- He wox sodaineliche redde.
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Pronunciation
Verb
wox
- to know
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