Saxon

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
3. (Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
4. (US, dated, rare, uncountable) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
5. A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.

Name

1. The language of the ancient Saxons.
2. The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
3. A surname.
4. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
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Adj

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
2. Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
4. (Ireland, Wales, poetic) Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.

Conceptos

sajón

Saxon

sajona

Sinónimos

Old Saxon

chela

claw

Englishman

lowlander

nipper

pincer

saxon

English

Anglo-Saxon

Traducciones

saxão

sassone

sächsisch

saxônico

Saxon

saxônio

Saxon

Saksisch

saxó

Sachse

Saxon

Sakser

Saxon

saxona

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsæksən/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: Saxe

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *Seaxa

Cognado con Middle Low German: sasse

Cognado con inglés antiguo: Seaxa

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: Sahso

Cognado con islandés: Saxi

Cognado con estonio: saks

Cognado con finés: Saksa

Cognado con inglés antiguo: seax

In summary

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both 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.