Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The language of the ancient Saxons. · Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony. · A surname. · A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons. · Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany. · Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language. · Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsan, plural of Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. Also from Saxoun, through Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”). All from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*sek-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionSaxeenm
- Inherited-form mention*Seaxaang
- Cognate mention*Sahsangmw-pro
- Cognate mention*Sahsōgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*sahsgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*sahsągem-pro
- Derivation mention*sek-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionSaisen
- Cognate mentionsassegml
- Cognate mentionSeaxaang
- Cognate mentionSahsogoh
- Cognate mentionSaxiis
- Cognate mentionsakset
- Cognate mentionSaksafi
- Cognate mentionseaxang
This page abbreviates 4 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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