Saxon

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

Old Saxon

chela

claw

Englishman

lowlander

nipper

pincer

saxon

English

Anglo-Saxon

Translations

sajón

sassone

saxão

sächsisch

saxônico

Saxon

saxônio

Saxon

Saksisch

saxó

Sachse

Saxon

Sakser

Saxon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsæksən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: Saxe

Inherited from Old English: *Seaxa

Cognate with Middle Low German: sasse

Cognate with Old English: Seaxa

Cognate with Old High German: Sahso

Cognate with Icelandic: Saxi

Cognate with Estonian: saks

Cognate with Finnish: Saksa

Cognate with Old English: 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.