sax

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See also: SAX and Sax.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with North Frisian sax (“knife, sword”), Middle Dutch sas (“knife”), Middle Low German sax (“knife”), Middle High German sahs (“a knife”), Danish saks (“a pair of scissors”), Swedish sax (“a pair of scissors”), Icelandic sax (“a short heavy sword”), Latin secō (“cut”). See also Saxon, saw.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax.
  2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 20 inches in length.

Verb

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  1. (transitive, British dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

  1. Clipping of saxophone.

Anagrams

Aleut

Noun

sax

  1. bird skin coat

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

Noun

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. sax, short sword, dagger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

Noun

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

  1. (informal) sax, saxophone
    Synonym: saxofoon

Kurdish

Adjective

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  1. alive
  2. healthy
  3. whole

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English seax, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax (plural saxes or saxen)

  1. A knife (tool)
  2. A knife (weapon)

Descendants

  • English: sax, zax

References

Old Norse

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

sax n (genitive sax, plural sǫx)

  1. a oneedged sword, a backsword
  2. (plural only) shears

Declension

  Declension of sax (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sax saxit sǫx sǫxin
accusative sax saxit sǫx sǫxin
dative saxi saxinu sǫxum sǫxunum
genitive sax saxins saxa saxanna
  • saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

Derived terms

  • saxa (“to cut with a 'sax'”)
  • saxknífr m (“dagger, dirk”)
  • saxoddr m (“the point of a 'sax”)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: sax n
  • Faroese: saksur m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saks f
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  • Swedish: sax c
  • Danish: saks c

References

“sax”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sex, byform of six, from Old English siex, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Pronunciation

Numeral

cardinal number
6 Previous: five
Next: seiven

sax

  1. six

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫx (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sax c

  1. a pair of scissors; shears
  2. short of saxofon
  3. a trap for animals

Declension

Declension of sax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sax saxen saxar saxarna
Genitive sax saxens saxars saxarnas

References

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