The story
- Old English · inherited fromMiddelseaxan
- English todayMiddlesex
From Old English Middelseaxan (literally “Middle Saxons”), which stood for both Middlesex and its people.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Middlesex
Today it means: A former inland county of England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary. Full definition →
Old English Middelseaxan