vixen

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 192 words | Copyright

vixen XV. ME. fixene fox ‘vixen of the fox’; not recorded in OE., which had fyxe and adj. fyxen, but there is a parallel sb. in late OHG. fuhsin (G. füchsin); see FOX, -EN2.

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