Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A German albumenized paper used in photography.
Saxony: A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany · A surname from the Germanic languages.
Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources. The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of Dutch Sas (literally “Saxon”), a cognate; and Middle English Saxe, a personal name from Old Norse Saxi, from sax (“one-edged sword”). All of these ultimately lead back to Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Doublet of Sachs, Sax, Sas, and Sachse.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionSaxeenm
- Derivation mentionSeaxeang
- Borrowed-form mentionSaxefrm
- Borrowed-form mentionSachsende
- Derivation mentionSaxende
- Borrowed-form mentionSachsde
- Borrowed-form mentionSasnl
- Derivation mentionSaxinon
- Derivation mention*sahsągem-pro
- Doublet mentionSachsen
- Doublet mentionSaxen
- Doublet mentionSasen
- Doublet mentionSachseen
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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