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- Old English · inherited fromĒastseaxan
- English todayEssex
Inherited from Old English Ēastseaxan (literally “East Saxons”), which stood for both Essex and the people of Essex.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essex
Today it means: A maritime county of England bordered by the North Sea, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Greater London, and separated from Kent by the Thames estuary. Full definition →
Old English Ēastseaxan