Noun: Saxon
| Singular | Saxon |
| Plural | Saxons |
Sample Sentences
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Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons. [1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170:]
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[...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...] [2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142:]
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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. [2005, Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture, page 69:]
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Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig. [2008, Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela, page 40:]
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Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […] [2014, Marco Polo, Dresden Marco Polo Guide, →ISBN, page 21:]
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Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came. [1973, Sean McCarthy, “Shanagolden”:]
Nouns inflected like Saxon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
Saxe', Old English Nouns '
*Seaxa', Old English Nouns '
Seaxa', Icelandic Nouns '
Saxi', Finnish Nouns '
Saksa', Old English Nouns '
seax'.
Verbs referencing "Saxon"
Old Norse Nouns
saxar.