Saxe

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Saxe

/sæks/
/ˈsæksə/
/sæks/ common

Where it comes from

Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources.

The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of Dutch Sas (literally “Saxon”), a cognate; and Middle English Saxe, a personal name from Old Norse Saxi, from sax (“one-edged sword”). All of these ultimately lead back to Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Doublet of Sachs, Sax, Sas, and Sachse.

proper noun

attributive, in compounds Saxony: A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany The Intentioun of the Empreour is sic, that he will put from the Impyre, the Palsgraue and Duke August of Saxe […]
A surname from the Germanic languages.

noun

historical, uncountable A German albumenized paper used in photography.

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@misc{saxe_2026,
  title = {Saxe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/saxe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}