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taks.

yew (a busk or a tree, Taxus baccata)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/taks/[ˈtˢɑɡ̊s]
  1. yew (a busk or a tree, Taxus baccata)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Latin taxus.

noun/taks/[ˈtˢɑɡ̊s]
  1. badger

    common-gender · obsolete
  2. dachshund

    common-gender · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse *þǫx, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz, cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk svintoks, Swedish tax (“dachshund”), German Dachs, Dutch das. The Danish word may be a younger loan from German Low German Tacks (perhaps itself borrowed from Frisian, cf. Saterland Frisian Taks).

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