"fox" meaning in Old English

See fox in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /foks/
Rhymes: -oks Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. Cognate with Old Frisian *foks, Old Saxon fohs, Old Dutch fus, Old High German fuhs. Etymology templates: {{etymon|ang|:inh|gem-pro:*fuhsaz<id:Q8331>|id=Q8331}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*fuhsaz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "fox", "lang" : "ang" }" data-id="Q8331" data-lang="ang" data-title="fox" id="Old_English:_Q8331">, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*fuhsaz}} Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, {{cog|ofs|*foks}} Old Frisian *foks, {{cog|osx|fohs}} Old Saxon fohs, {{cog|odt|fus}} Old Dutch fus, {{cog|goh|fuhs}} Old High German fuhs Head templates: {{ang-noun|m}} fox m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|fox}}, {{ang-decl-noun|fox|foxas|fox|foxas|foxes|foxa|foxe|foxum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], fox [nominative, singular], foxas [nominative, plural], fox [accusative, singular], foxas [accusative, plural], foxes [genitive, singular], foxa [genitive, plural], foxe [dative, singular], foxum [dative, plural]
  1. fox Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-fox-ang-noun-d2yzJqsM
  2. late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints, quoting Matthew 8:20 Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-fox-ang-noun-PilmMU0P Categories (other): Old English entries with etymon, Old English entries with incorrect language header, Foxes Disambiguation of Old English entries with etymon: 4 96 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Foxes: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foxhol, fyxen

Inflected forms

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          "english": "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but I have no dwelling where I can rest my head.",
          "text": "Foxas habbaþ holu and fugelas habbaþ nest, and iċ næbbe wununge hwider iċ mīn heafod ahyldan mæġe.",
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          "english": "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but I have no dwelling where I can rest my head.",
          "text": "Foxas habbaþ holu and fugelas habbaþ nest, and iċ næbbe wununge hwider iċ mīn heafod ahyldan mæġe.",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.