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.
Meanings
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt. 2009, M. K. Hume, King Arthur: Dragon’s Child, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 340:
Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking. 2010, Sandra Hill, Viking in Love, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 353:
Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
(Ireland, Wales, poetic) Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness. 1987, Idries Shah, Adventures, Facts and Fantasy in Darkest England, London: The Octagon Press, →ISBN, page 325:
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.
Meanings
A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
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:
A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
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:
[...] 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:
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:
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:
(Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came. 1973, Sean McCarthy, “Shanagolden”:
(US, dated, rare, uncountable) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
sl Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · nn saksar (member of Saxon tribe) · be саксо́нец (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · es sajón (member of Saxon tribe) · nn saksar (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · nl non plus ultra (2-point type) · ka საქსონიელი (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · bg саксо́нка (member of Saxon tribe) · ca saxó (member of Saxon tribe) · et saksi (member of Saxon tribe) · de Non Plus Ultra (2-point type) · hy սաքս (member of Saxon tribe) · ang Seaxa (member of Saxon tribe) · pl Saksończyk (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ka საქსი (member of Saxon tribe) · fro Saiscon (member of Saxon tribe) · cs Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · de Sachse (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pl Sas (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pl Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · ga Sacsanach (member of Saxon tribe) · sk Sas (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · cy Sacson (member of Saxon tribe) · de Sachse (member of Saxon tribe) · sl Sasinja (member of Saxon tribe) · hu szász (member of Saxon tribe) · lt saksas (member of Saxon tribe) · sh Саксо́нац (member of Saxon tribe) · sv sachsare (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · nl Saks (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · mk Саксонка (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ca saxó (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · sh Saksónac (member of Saxon tribe) · nl Saks (member of Saxon tribe) · it sassone (member of Saxon tribe) · sv saxare (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ca saxona (member of Saxon tribe) · mi Hakiana (member of Saxon tribe) · lv saksis (member of Saxon tribe) · sv sachsare (member of Saxon tribe) · nds-de Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · bg саксо́нец (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · fo saksi (member of Saxon tribe) · uk сакс (member of Saxon tribe) · da sakser (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ast saxón (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · nl Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · sk Sas (member of Saxon tribe) · mi Hakihona (member of Saxon tribe) · fi saksi (member of Saxon tribe) · de Viertelpetit (2-point type) · de Sächsin (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · uk саксо́нка (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · bg саксо́нец (member of Saxon tribe) · be саксо́нка (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ka საქსონელი (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · cs Sas (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pt saxão (member of Saxon tribe) · nb sakser (member of Saxon tribe) · pl Saksonka (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · hu szász (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · be сакс (member of Saxon tribe) · pt saxônio (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · cy Sacson (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ru саксо́нец (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · nl vierde petit (2-point type) · fr Saxon (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · it sassone (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pt saxônico (member of Saxon tribe) · es sajona (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ru сакс (member of Saxon tribe) · ru саксо́нка (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ga Sacsanach (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · fi saksilainen (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ca saxona (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · uk саксо́нець (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · bg саксо́нка (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pt saxão (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · pt saxônio (member of Saxon tribe) · gur saksɔn-nẽra (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · gur saksɔŋa (member of Saxon tribe) · da sakser (member of Saxon tribe) · nb sakser (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · sga Saxain (member of Saxon tribe) · el Σάξονας (member of Saxon tribe) · fi saksi (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · es sajón (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · fr Saxonne (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · sv saxare (member of Saxon tribe) · sq sakson (member of Saxon tribe) · da sachser (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · fo saksi (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ko 색슨인 (member of Saxon tribe) · mk Саксонец (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · hi सैक्सन (member of Saxon tribe) · ro saxon (member of Saxon tribe) · fo sakslendingur (native or inhabitant of Saxony) · ja サクソン人 (member of Saxon tribe) · ast saxón (member of Saxon tribe)
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.
Meanings
The language of the ancient Saxons.
Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
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:
But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin. 2014, Gaston Dorren, Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe, →ISBN:
A surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
A place name: ▸ A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
A place name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
A place name: ▸ A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
A place name: ▸ A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
pt saxão (language of the Saxons) · ka ძველი საქსონური ენა (language of the Saxons) · ka საქსონური ენა (language of the Saxons) · ka ძველი საქსონური (language of the Saxons) · ca saxó (language of the Saxons) · bg саксонски (language of the Saxons) · ja サクソン語 (language of the Saxons) · sv fornsaxiska (language of the Saxons) · de Sächsisch (language of the Saxons) · ast saxón (language of the Saxons) · pt saxônico (language of the Saxons) · de Altsächsisch (language of the Saxons) · fi saksi (language of the Saxons) · gur saksɔnnɛ (language of the Saxons)