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Anglosaxon
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anglosaxon anglo-saxon Anglo-Saxon
English
Noun
en Anglo-Saxon.
Adjective
en Anglo-Saxon.
en 1849 John Mitchell Kemble The Saxons in England The Anglosaxon belief in the Shieldmaidens comes to us indeed in a darkened form, yet we can hardly doubt that it survived.
en Alexander J[ohn] Ellis On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer,Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England, from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types. Including a Re-arrangement of Prof. F. J. Child’s Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521. London Published [F]or the Philological Society, by Asher & Co., London & Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co.,60, Paternoster Row 1869 title page on EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, with especial reference to SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in england, from the anglosaxon period to the present day,
en George D. Painter George D. Painter William Caxton: A Biography New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1976 1977 Working from the later, twelfth-century forms Kachestone, Cakeston, the great etymologist Skeat suggested an original Cahestun, meaning the farm of an Anglosaxon settler named Cah;