Saxon

See also saxon

English

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Etymology

From Middle English *Saxon, Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo (“a Saxon”), from West Germanic *Sahsô, probably originally a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sÁk-, *sek- (“to cut”). 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”), Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”). More at sax.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sæksən/
• Rhymes: -æksən

Noun

Saxon (plural Saxons)

1. A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
   • 2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142:

     [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]

   • 2005, Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture, page 69:

     The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.

   • 2008, Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela, page 40:

     Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.

Translations

member of Saxon tribe

• Armenian: սաքս (hy) (sakʿs)
• Catalan: saxó (ca) m, saxona (ca) f
• Finnish: saksi (fi)
• German: Sachse (de) m
• Japanese: サクソン人 (ja) (sakuson jin)

• Old French: Saiscon m
• Old Irish: Saxa m, Saxanach m, Sagsach m
• Portuguese: saxão (pt) m, saxônio (pt) m, saxônico (pt) m
• Russian: сакс (ru) (saks) m

native or inhabitant of Saxony

• Catalan: saxó (ca) m, saxona (ca) f
• Finnish: saksi (fi), saksilainen (fi)
• German: Sachse (de) m, Sächsin (de) f

• Portuguese: saxão (pt) m, saxônio (pt) m
• Russian: саксонец (ru) (saksónec) m, саксонка (ru) (saksónka) f
• Spanish: sajón (es) m, sajona (es) f

Proper noun

Saxon

1. The language of the ancient Saxons.

Translations

language of the Saxons

• Catalan: saxó (ca) m
• Finnish: saksi (fi)
• German: Sächsisch (de) n, Altsächsisch (de) n

• Japanese: サクソン語 (ja) (sakuson go)
• Portuguese: saxão (pt) m, saxônico (pt) m

Adjective

Saxon (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Saxons.
2. Of or relating to Saxony.
3. Of or relating to the Saxon language.

Translations

of Saxons, Saxony or Saxon language

• Catalan: saxó (ca)
• Finnish: saksilainen (fi), saksi-
• German: sächsisch (de)
• Japanese: サクソン語の (ja) (sakuson go no) (language), サクソン族の (ja) (sakuson zoku no) (of tribe)

• Old Norse: saxlenzkr, saxneskr
• Polish: saksoński (pl) m
• Portuguese: saxão (pt), saxônio (pt), saxônico (pt)
• Russian: саксонский (ru) (saksónskij)
• Spanish: sajón (es)

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• Interlingua: saxone (ia)
• Low German: Sassen (nds)

See also

• Saxonian

Anagrams

• axons, Naxos