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

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Old Saxon

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 root occurs in the following adverbial forms: Mœso-Gothic, bats; Old High German, pats; Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon, bet; Middle High German, baz; Middle Dutch, bat, bet.

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

Thus Kemble brought to the study of the poem not only a knowledge of the Old English poetry and prose, but acquaintance with Old Norse, Gothic, Old High German, and Old Saxon.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

It has grown out of the fuller forms ge-: Anglo-Saxon, ge-: Old Saxon, gi-: Mœso-Gothic, ga-: Old High German, ka-, cha-, ga-, ki-, gi-.

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

It was not without cause that the Old Saxon emperors were so attached to their native Harz.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke