Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sahsō
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *sahs (“dagger, knife”).
Noun edit
*sahsō m[1]
- a Saxon
Inflection edit
Masculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *sahsō | |
Genitive | *sahsini, *sahsan | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sahsō | *sahsan |
Accusative | *sahsan | *sahsan |
Genitive | *sahsini, *sahsan | *sahsanō |
Dative | *sahsini, *sahsan | *sahsum |
Instrumental | *sahsini, *sahsan | *sahsum |
Descendants edit
- Old English: *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan)
- Old Saxon: Sahso
- Old Dutch: *sasso
- Middle Dutch: sassen pl
- Old High German: Sahso
- → Old Norse: Saxi, Saxar (plural)
- → Latin: Saxō
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*Sahsō”