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

Of its origin and early history we have no record except the bare statement of Bede that its settlers were of the Old Saxon race.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

In the Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon the forms are -and and -ande; as bindand, bindande = binding.

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