The story
- Old English · inherited fromforweaxan“to progress, grow too much, become overgrown”
- Middle English · inherited fromforwaxen
- English todayforwax
From Middle English forwaxen, from Old English forweaxan (“to progress, grow too much, become overgrown”), equivalent to for- + wax (“to grow, increase”). Cognate with German verwachsen (“to grow together, heal over, overgrow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.