fax – English noun declension

English noun forms of fax

Noun: fax
Singularfax
Pluralfaxes

Sample Sentences

  • The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face. [1710, Gawin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish verse, page 253:]

Nouns inflected like fax

fax,

Etymology

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fax', Old English Nouns 'feax', Icelandic Nouns 'fax'.

Verbs referencing "fax"

Dutch Nouns fax, French Nouns fax, Hungarian Nouns fax, Italian Nouns fax, Finnish Nouns faksi, Irish Nouns facs, Russian Nouns факс.