𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌰

Etymology
From, from , akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. A variant u-stem lemma *auhsus was once thought to underlie the forms auhsau and *auhsum (superseded reading, see below), but this view is no longer current among scholars.

Noun

 * 1)  ox, neat adult bovine specimen

Declension
Irregular inflection preserving zero-grade forms. Attested only in the nominative singular, accusative singular, dative singular and genitive plural. The rest of the forms below are conjectural, based mostly on the u-stems. The u-stem forms in the singular presumably came about from the regular dative plural *𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌿𐌼, which was identical to dative plural of the u-stems.

The second appearance of the words in 1 Corinthians 9:9 was read by Streitberg as, but Ebbinghaus's (1972) reading as is today the usual reading. For discussion of the various forms and variant readings of the dative and accusative singular, see Miller (2017) and Bammesberger (1990) with references.