Etymograph

English

refax

From re- + fax.

Formed from re- + fax

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- ‘to comb, shear, pluck’

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Proto-Germanic *fahsą ‘hair, mane’

Proto-West Germanic *fahs ‘hair’

Old English feax ‘hair, head of hair’

Middle English fax ‘the hair of the head’

English fax

Today it means

verb To fax again; to send again by fax machine.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “refax”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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