oxe
“oxe” is a Swedish word. Its 6 meanings in English:
noun
- an ox (adult castrated male of cattle, typically used as a beast of burden)
- beef (meat from cattle, male and female – chiefly as a dish and in the names of some cuts of beef)
- a bull (of cattle, reindeer, or moose)
- a bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)
- Taurus
- a Taurus (person born under the Taurus astrological sign)
Etymology
From Old Swedish oxe, from Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“bull”).
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