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German wahst 'growth, increase',
Gothic wahstus 'stature', Old
English weaxan 'to grow'. Look up
waist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Abdominal obesity...
- Ic on
wincle gefrægn
weaxan nathwæt, þindan ond þunian, þecene hebban; on þæt
banlease bryd grapode,
hygewlonc hondum, hrægle þeahte þrindende þing þeodnes...
- grow, increase" eke (< OE ēacian "to increase"); wax (of the moon) (< OE
weaxan "to grow") aukan,
auknan "to
increase (intr.)",
wahsjan "to grow" < orig...
- wixð (third-person
singular present form of wexan,
smoothed variant of
weaxan), if not
simply a
morphological spelling for /kst/.
Because of the loss...
