Saxon

• n. 撒克遜人
• adj. 撒克遜人的

來自 Saxon,撒克遜人，來自 Proto-Germanic*Sahsa,石頭，石製刀具，刀，來自 PIE*sek,砍， 切，詞源同 saw,segment.詞義演變比較 Frank,法蘭克人，原義為標槍。

Saxon (n.)

c. 1200, from Late Latin Saxonem (nominative Saxo; also source of French Saxon, Spanish Sajon, Italian Sassone), usually found in plural Saxones, from a Germanic source (Old English Seaxe, Old High German Sahsun, German Sachse "Saxon"), with a possible literal sense of "swordsmen" (compare Old English seax, Old Frisian, Old Norse sax "knife, short sword, dagger," Old High German Saxnot, name of a war-god), from Proto-Germanic *sahsam "knife," from PIE *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)).

The word figures in the well-known story, related by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who got it from Nennius, of the treacherous slaughter by the Anglo-Saxons of their British hosts:

Accordingly they all met at the time and place appointed, and began to treat of peace; and when a fit opportunity offered for executing his villany, Hengist cried out, "Nemet oure Saxas," and the same instant seized Vortigern, and held him by his cloak. The Saxons, upon the signal given, drew their daggers, and falling upon the princes, who little suspected any such design, assassinated them to the number of four hundred and sixty barons and consuls ....

The OED editors helpfully point out that the correct Old English (with an uninflected plural) would be nimað eowre seax. For other Germanic national names that may have derived from characteristic tribal weapons, see Frank, Lombard. As an adjective from 1560s. Still in 20c. used by Celtic speakers to mean "an Englishman" (Welsh Sais, plural Seison "an Englishman;" Seisoneg "English").

In reference to the modern German state of Saxony (German Sachsen, French Saxe) it is attested from 1630s. Saxon is the source of the -sex in Essex, Sussex, etc. (compare Middlesex, from Old English Middel-Seaxe "Middle Saxons"). Bede distinguished the Anglo-Saxons, who conquered much of southern Britain, from the Ealdesaxe "Old Saxons," who stayed in Germany.

1. These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.

從撒克遜時代起就開始采伐塞文山穀的這些樹林獲取木料。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Ex-cavations have revealed Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains in the area.

挖掘工作已顯示在該地區有羅馬和盎格魯-撒克遜時代的遺跡。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Debilly had no Anglo-Saxon shyness about discussing money.

在談到錢時，德比利毫無英國式的羞澀。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period.

在諾曼時期,原來的薩克森風格的建築物都增添了走廊.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Anglo - Saxon is the forerunner of modern English.

盎 格魯撒 克遜語是現代英語的先驅.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》