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- Old English · derived fromSeaxe“Saxons”
- English todaySaxton
From Old English Seaxe (“Saxons”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Words from the same roots
Old EnglishSeaxe all →
Saxe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saxton
Today it means: A village in Saxton with Scarthingwell parish, Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4736). Full definition →
Old English Seaxe