Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical)A short Saxon sword.

    Sax, Sachs

    саксsaks, скрамасаксskramasaks

More definitions
  • a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
short Saxon sword:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
short Saxon sword:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.

Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.

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Forms

plural: seaxes
Singularseax
Pluralseaxes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
seax — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto