Anglo-Saxon

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Proper noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Translations 1.1.3 See also 1.1.4 Related terms 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 See also 1.4 External links

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Singular Anglo-Saxon

Plural -

Anglo-Saxon

1. The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has five cases of nouns and adjectives.
2. Germanic peoples inhabiting mediæval England.
3. (US) A person of British or North European descent.
4. (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person.

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• Old English

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• wasp

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• English
• Middle English
• Modern English

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Anglo-Saxon (comparative more Anglo-Saxon, superlative most Anglo-Saxon)

1. Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
2. Related to nations which speak primarily English; especially United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia.
3. (politics) Favouring a liberal free market economy.
4. (US) Descended from white English or North European settlers.

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• Germanic

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SIL entry for Anglo-Saxon, IS 639-3 code ang