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Old English
Etymology
eald (“old”) + Seaxan (“Saxons”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ealdseaxan m pl
- the continental Saxons
- Saxony
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 885
Þȳ ilcan ġēare ġegaderode miċel sċiphere on Ealdseaxum, and þǣr wearþ miċel ġefeoht—twā on ġēare—and þā Seaxan hæfdon siġe, and þǣr wǣron Frīsan mid.- The same year, a large naval force assembled in Saxony , and there was a great battle—the second in one year—and the Saxons won, and there were Frisians with them.
Declension
Weak:
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