different between kex vs wex

English

Alternative forms

• kix

Etymology

From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same root as Latin cic?ta (“hemlock”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/

Noun

kex (plural kexes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
2. (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
3. (rare) A dry husk or covering.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:

     On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c??ks/, /c??xs/

Noun

kex n (genitive singular kex, nominative plural kex)

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kixe, kyx, kysk

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ks/, /kiks/

Noun

kex (plural kexis)

1. Any dried stem of a plant with a hollow interior.
2. (rare) A plant having a hollow stem; a member of the family Umbelliferae.

Descendants

• English: kex, kix
• Scots: kex

References

• “kex(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• käx (dated)

Etymology

From English cakes, plural of cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (whence also kaka), from Proto-Germanic *kak?, from Proto-Indo-European *gog. The reason why the word is lent in the plural is because it is easier to apply the Swedish declension patterns with cakes than with cake. Compare the similar loans räls and muffins. Compare Danish kiks (similarly borrowed from English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Svealand, Norrland) /k?ks/, (Götaland) /??ks/

Noun

kex n

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

English

Verb

wex (third-person singular simple present wexes, present participle wexing, simple past and past participle wexed)

1. Obsolete form of wax.
   • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis

     The sun but seem'd the lab'rer of their year;
     Each wexing moon supply'd her wat'ry store.

Anagrams

• EXW

Middle English

Noun

wex

1. Alternative form of wax (“wax”)