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sasse¹

Where it comes from

Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).

noun sasses

  1. obsolete A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable. Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.

Sasse²

  • /sæs/

Where it comes from

* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō.

* As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.

proper noun Sasses

  1. A surname.

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"sasse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sasse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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sasse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sasse

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"sasse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sasse.

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@misc{sasse_2026,
  title = {sasse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sasse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}