Etymology

daxophone

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Today it means: An electric wooden experimental musical instrument, a kind of friction idiophone. Full definition →

German Dachs
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The story

  1. German · derived fromDachs“badger”
  2. English todaydaxophone

From German Dachs (“badger”) (since it can generate animal sounds) and saxophone.

Words from the same roots

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dachshund

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