Fox Definition
A surname derived from the name of the animal.
(US, broadcasting) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA.
Origin of Fox
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From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Pre-Germanic *puḱsos (“tailed one”), from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ- (“tail”). Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), North Frisian Fering-Öömrang dialect foos, and Sölring and Heligoland dialects fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pukh, “down, fluff”), Torwali [script?] (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pū̃ch, “tail”).
From Wiktionary
Translation of French Renards foxes perhaps translation of Fox wa·koše·haki foxes (applied as a name to a clan with the totem of a fox)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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