köken: From Middle High German vuhs, from Old High German fuhs, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), from *puḱ- (“tail”). Cognate with English fox, Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha).
brown (having brown color) · brown (hair or eye color) · chestnut (having a dark brown colour)
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese castanho (“brown”), probably from Latin castaneus (“pertaining to chestnuts”). Cognate with Galician castaño, Mirandese castanho, Asturian castañu, Spanish castaño and Catalan castany. Doublet of castâneo.