ox

• 牛

古英語のoxa（雄牛）から。複数形はoxen。

ox

ox: [OE] Ox is an ancient word, traceable back to a prehistoric Indo-European *uksín-. This also produced Welsh ych ‘bull’, Irish oss ‘stag’, and Sanskrit ukshán ‘bull’, and it has been speculated that there may be some connection with Sanskrit uks- ‘emit semen’ and Greek hugrós ‘moist’, as if *uksín- denoted etymologically ‘male animal’.

If this was so, the ‘seed-bearing’ function had clearly been lost sight of by the time it had evolved to Germanic *okhson, which was reserved for a ‘castrated bull’. Ox’s modern Germanic relatives are German ochse (taken over by English in the compound aurochs ‘extinct wild ox’ [18], which etymologically means ‘original or primeval ox’), Dutch os, Swedish oxe, and Danish okse.
=> aurochs

ox (n.)

Old English oxa "ox" (plural oxan), from Proto-Germanic *ukhson (cognates: Old Norse oxi, Old Frisian oxa, Middle Dutch osse, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, German Ochse, Gothic auhsa), from PIE *uks-en- "male animal," (cognates: Welsh ych "ox," Middle Irish oss "stag," Sanskrit uksa, Avestan uxshan- "ox, bull"), said to be from root *uks- "to sprinkle," related to *ugw- "wet, moist." The animal word, then, is literally "besprinkler."

1. Seize a horse by the mane，and lead an ox by the nose.

馬がたてがみをつかんで牛を引いて鼻を引く。

2.The ox is never woe，till he to the harrow go.

牛は代掻きもせずに苦を知らない.

3.I 'm willing to be an ox serving the country all my life.

私は甘んじて子牛になり、一生国のために奉仕します。

4.We 've made a fire fit to roast an ox .

牛を焼くのに十分なほど火が盛んになった。

5.He drove the ox hard.

彼は牛を追い払った。