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Seaxe

  • noun
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Grammar
Seaxe, Seaxan; pl.
Wright's OE grammar
§385;
The Saxons,
in connection with England
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  • Cómon hí of þrím folcum ðám strangestan Germanie, ðæt [is] of Seaxum and of Angle and of Geátum . . . Of Seaxum, ðæt is of ðam lande ðe mon háteþ Eald-Seaxan, cóman Eást-Seaxan (-Seaxa, -Sexa,

      Chron. 449) and Súþ-Seaxan (-Sexa, Chron.) and West-Seaxan (-Sexa, Chron.), Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 20-24.

  • Ðá wǽron Seaxan sécende intingan,

      S. 483, 36.

  • On Germanie ðanon Engle and Seaxan cumene wǽron,

      5, 9; S. 622, 14.

  • Engle and Seaxe,

      Chr. 937; Erl. 115, 19: Menol. Fox 368; Men. 185.

  • Sexna kyning,

      459; Men. 231.

  • Æt Seaxena handa forwurþan,

      Chr. 605; Erl. 21, 28.

  • Englum and Sexum (Sæxum),

      1065; Erl. 196, 30.

  • Ðæt spell ðæt ic áwrát be Angelþeóde and Seaxum,

      Bd. pref.; S. 471, 10.
continental Saxons
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  • Ðý ilcan geáre gegadrode micel sciphere on Ald-Seaxum, and dǽr wearþ micel gefeoht . . . and ða Seaxan hæfdun sige,

      Chr. 885; Erl. 84, 8.

  • Ic wæs mid Seaxum,

      Exon. Th. 322, 12; Víd. 62.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. Sahsun: Icel. Saxar. For the connection of Seaxe(-an) with Seax, v. Grmm. Gesch. D. S. c. xxiii.]
Similar entries
v. Eald- (Ald-), Eást-, Súþ-, West-Seaxe.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “Seaxe.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27297.

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