Etymology

Sachs

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Today it means: A surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym]. Full definition →

German Sachs ← Middle High German Sahse ← Old High German Sahso
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
  2. Proto-Germanic*sahsą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*sahs
  4. Proto-West Germanic*Sahsō
  5. Old High GermanSahso
  6. Middle High GermanSahse
  7. GermanSachse
  8. GermanSachs
  9. English todaySachs

From the German surname, from Sachse (“Saxon”).

Words from the same roots

GermanSachs all →

saxSaxe

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.