saxar
Icelandic
editVerb
editsaxar
- inflection of saxa:
Old Norse
editEtymology
editDerived from Proto-West Germanic *sahs (“knife, dagger”), and akin to English Saxon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
editsaxar m pl
- the Saxons
Declension
edit Declension of saxar, (weak an-stem, plural only)
Derived terms
edit- Saxelfr f (“the river Elbe”)
- Saxland n (“the land of the Saxons; Saxony”)
- saxlenzkr (“Saxon, German”)
- saxneskr (“Saxon, German”)
Related terms
edit- sax n (“sword, shears”)
Descendants
editSee also
edit- frakkar m pl (“Franks”)
References
edit- “saxar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
editNoun
editsaxar
- indefinite plural of sax
Verb
editsaxar
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