oxe

• hox, nox, occe, ocxe, okse, ox, oxhe, oxse

From Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔks(ə)/

oxe (plural oxen)

1. ox

The plurals oxes and exen are occasionally found.

• oxeherde
• oxtonge

• English: ox (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: ox

• “oxe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• osh, oshi, oushi (Internet slang)

Clipping of oxente.

oxe!

1. (Brazil) expresses surprise, dismay or admiration

From Old Swedish oxe, from Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“bull”).

oxe c

1. an ox (adult castrated male of cattle, typically used as a beast of burden)
2. beef (meat from cattle, male and female – chiefly as a dish and in the names of some cuts of beef)

   Synonym: (beef, more generally) nötkött

   oxfilé

   beef tenderloin, fillet of beef

   (literally, “ox fillet”)

   oxpytt

   beef pyttipanna [pyttipanna made with (just) beef]

3. a bull (of cattle, reindeer, or moose)

   Synonym: (more common) tjur

   älgoxe

   bull moose

   (literally, “moose ox”)

   More commonly älgtjur.

4. (chiefly in compounds) a bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)

   bisonoxe

   American bison

   (literally, “bison ox”)

   oxdjur

   bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)

   (literally, “ox animal”)

5. (astronomy, in the singular definite "oxen") Taurus
6. (astrology) Taurus
   1. a Taurus (person born under the Taurus astrological sign)

      Han är oxe

      He is a Taurus

Turns into ox- in compounds.

• stut
• tjur

• oxe in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• oxe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• oxe in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

oxe

1. (inanimate, intransitive) it is light

• òxehëmu
• òxeataès

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “oxe”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project