wahsen

Middle High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈwaxs̠ən/

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Central Franconian: wahße, wahsse, waße, waaße (alternative spellings), wase (Dutch-based spelling), wohße (some dialects of Moselle Franconian), 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