The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sahsą
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sahs
- Old English · inherited fromseax
- Middle English · inherited fromsax“knife”
- English todayzax
Inherited from Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą. Doublet of sax.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishsax all →
sax
Old Englishseax all →
saxseax
Proto-West Germanic*sahs all →
saxSaxon
Proto-Germanic*sahsą all →
saxSaxonSaxe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.