Saxon

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

sassone

Saxon

sinonimi

Old Saxon

chela

claw

Englishman

lowlander

nipper

pincer

saxon

English

Anglo-Saxon

Traduzioni

sajón

saxão

sächsisch

saxônico

saxônio

Saxon

Saxon

saxó

Saksisch

Sachse

Saxon

Sakser

Saxon

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsæksən/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: Saxe

Ereditato da inglese antico: *Seaxa

Affine Middle Low German: sasse

Affine inglese antico: Seaxa

Affine tedesco antico alto: Sahso

Affine islandese: Saxi

Affine estone: saks

Affine finlandese: Saksa

Affine inglese antico: 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.