oxe

• hox, nox, occe, ocxe, okse, ox, oxhe, oxse

From Old English oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔks(ə)/

oxe (plural oxen)

1. ox
   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎^[1], Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þ^t poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe.

     At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.

The plurals oxes and exen are occasionally found.

• Oxenford
• oxeherde
• oxtonge

• English: ox (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: ox, hox, oix, oxe, oxx
  • Scots: ouse (either from Middle Scots *owse or rebuilt on the plural owsyn)

• “oxe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• osh, oshi, oushi (Internet slang)

Clipping of oxente.

oxe!

1. (Brazil) expresses surprise, dismay or admiration

• “oxe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Old Swedish oxe, from Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“bull”).

oxe c

1. an ox (adult castrated male of cattle, typically used as a beast of burden)
2. beef (meat from cattle, male and female – chiefly as a dish and in the names of some cuts of beef)

   Synonym: (beef, more generally) nötkött

   oxfilé

   beef tenderloin, fillet of beef

   (literally, “ox fillet”)

   oxpytt

   beef pyttipanna [pyttipanna made with (just) beef]

3. a bull (of cattle, reindeer, or moose)

   Synonym: (more common) tjur

   älgoxe

   bull moose

   (literally, “moose ox”)

   More commonly älgtjur.

4. (chiefly in compounds) a bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)

   bisonoxe

   American bison

   (literally, “bison ox”)

   oxdjur

   bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)

   (literally, “ox animal”)

5. (astronomy, in the singular definite "oxen") Taurus
6. (astrology) Taurus
   1. a Taurus (person born under the Taurus astrological sign)

      Han är oxe

      He is a Taurus

Turns into ox- in compounds.

• stut
• tjur

• “oxe”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “oxe”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “oxe”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

oxe (VII (inanimate-subject intransitive))

1. it is light

• òxehëmu
• òxeataès

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “oxe”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project