ox

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English word ox comes from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (Bull.), Icelandic jötun-

*uksḗn (Proto-Indo-European)

Bull.

jötun- (Icelandic)

*uhsô (Proto-Germanic)

Ox.

oxa (Old English)

Ox.

ox (English)

An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus).. Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.

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