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Borrowed from Old SaxonSahso(“a Saxon, a Low German”), a tribe/people inhabiting northern Germany (not to be confused with modern Saxony). Germans in general were identified with (Old) Saxons because contact with the German-speaking countries happened at first mainly via the Baltic Sea with people speaking Low German. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic*sahsō. Cognate with EstonianSaksamaa(literally “Saxon land”). Doublet of saksa, sakset, saksi(“claw”), saksi(“Saxon”), Saksi, sax, andseax.
Exceptionally, the country name Saksa(“Germany”) has a plural as from 1949 to 1990 there were two German states: Länsi-Saksa(“West Germany”) and Itä-Saksa(“East Germany”).
Saksa is the 1547th (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 555 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
References
L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli (1936) P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46
