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Definition of Old Saxon
1. Noun. Low German prior to 1200.
Definition of Old Saxon
1. Proper noun. A west Germanic language historically tied to Anglo-Saxon and Old Low Franconian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Saxon
Literary usage of Old Saxon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... which was transposed in English to eorl, and was applied to the officials who
presided over the counties and who supplanted the old Saxon ealdorman. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... that of the Saxons being more closely allied to the Old Saxon of the Continent,
of which Dutch is probably the nearest living representative, ..."
3. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"Old-Saxon compositions.—The 0/rf-Saxon specimens which have come down to us are
not numerous. The first in importance is called the ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"This brilliant conjecture has since been confirmed by the discovery in the Vatican
library of portions of the Old Saxon original, which dates from the ..."
5. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"Old English forms a branch of the so-called West Germanic, ie, of the unitary
language from which, in later times, proceeded Old English, Frisian, Old Saxon ..."
6. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"Old Saxon AND THE PLATT DEUTSCH. § 54. The Platt Deutsch is spoken by those whose
ancestors spoke the Old Saxon, in Northern Germany, in Holstein, ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Furnivall, p. 53 ; hoby, ab. 1400, Reliq. Antiq. ii. 23. HOP (2). We find: 'volubilis
major, hoffe:' where hoppe is an Old Westphalian (Old Saxon) ..."
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