Etymology

seax

seax·,·se·ax
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Today it means: A short Saxon sword. Full definition →

Old English seax
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The story

  1. Old English · learned borrowing fromseax“dagger”
  2. English todayseax

Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishseax all →

saxzax

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