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Saxe
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şâxə
English
Etymology
Seemingly a combination of influences: en enm Saxe the Saxons (from en ang Seaxe), en frm Saxe Saxony, and en de Sachsen Saxony and de Sachse a Saxon itself, rewritten with x (compare regional en de Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., en Saxen) is found in some Early Modern English Early Modern sources.
The surname is also partly from en de Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of en nl Sas Saxon, a cognate; and en enm Saxe, a personal name from en non Saxi, from non sax one-edged sword. All of these ultimately lead back to en gem-pro *sahsą dagger, knife. en Sachs Sax Sas Sachse.
Pronunciation
proper noun en /sæks/ /ˈsæksə/
common noun en /sæks/
Proper noun
en now only in compounds or attributively Saxony: en Saxony Q3057629
en 1572 The copie of the Proclamatioun set furth be the kingis Maiestie and his Counsall, for ane Conuentioun of the Professouris of the trew Religioun within the Realme https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240883147/99848120 The Intentioun of the Empreour is sic, that he will put from the Impyre, the Palsgraue and Duke August of Saxe
en 1669 w:Gilbert Burnet A Modest and Free Conference Betwixt a Conformist and a Non-conformist https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240951575/10152305 17 When Luther rose, the Duke of Saxe, being moved of God, did receive the Reformation peaceably into his principalities, without any force, and his examples was followed by other Princes and free cities
en 1988 w:Michael A. Meyer Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism 0814325556 104 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E097BTUssM4C&pg=PA104 If Prussian policy represented the extreme of encouraging the dissolution of Judaism through inner decay, in Saxe–Weimar it was deemed best to break the bonds of tradition forcibly in order to speed up the process of amalgamation.
en Germanic languages.
Derived terms
en saxe blue
en Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Noun
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en photography historical A German albumenized paper used in photography.
References
Anagrams
en aesx Seax axes seax sexa-
French
fr:
Etymology
From fr frm Saxe, an apparently semi-learned form which fro Saisunie 1, fro Sessoigne, etc., from fr la Saxōnia, perhaps after fr la-med Saxia or influenced by fr de Sachsen itself. Compare frm Saxone Saxony.
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-avenue du Maréchal-de-Saxe.wav
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-Saxe.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
Proper noun
f
fr Saxony Q1202,Q3057629
See also
Anagrams
fr axes
fr exonyms