fax

Meanings

Noun

• The hair of the head.
• A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Verb

• To send a document via a fax machine.

Origin

• From Middle English fax, from Old English feax ("hair, head of hair"), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- ("to comb, shear, pluck"). Cognate with Dutch vas ("headhair"), German Fachs ("head-hair"), Norwegian faks ("mane"), Icelandic fax ("mane"), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् ("eyelash, hair, filament").
• , first attested 1979.