Old Saxon

American  

noun

1. the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. OS, O.S.

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Old Saxon British  

noun

1.  OS.  the Saxon dialect of Low German up to about 1200, from which modern Low German is derived

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Etymology

Origin of Old Saxon

First recorded in 1830–35

Example Sentences

Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its Old High German form is �o, io; in Middle High German, ie; in New High German, je; in Old Saxon, io; in Anglo-Saxon, �; in Norse, �.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The word is extant in Old English only in the Glossaries, in the gen. sing., "handful beouaes," etc., and in Old Saxon only in the gen. plu. beuuo.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

The present survey is consequently divided into six main sections: I. The Old High German Period, including the literature of the Old Saxon dialect, from the earliest times to the middle of the 11th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

Platt-Deutsch or Low German, a dialect spoken by the peasantry in North Germany from the Rhine to Pomerania, and derived from Old Saxon.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin