English

foxess

From fox + -ess, since 1866.

Formed from fox + -ess

Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos ‘the tailed one’

Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz ‘fox’

Proto-West Germanic *fuhs

Old English fox ‘fox’

Middle English fox

English fox

Today it means

noun A female fox.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.