Saxonism

plural Saxonisms

1. A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

   The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream.

   1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 111

   1 more example

   The language is not much more easy or intelligible than that of many of the Norman-Saxon poems quoted in the preceding section : it is full of Saxonisms, which indeed abound , more or less , in every writer before Gower and Chaucer .

   1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry