seax

See also: Seax

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːks/
• Homophone: seeks

Noun

seax (plural seaxes)

1. A short Saxon sword.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34

     The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.

Translations

short Saxon sword

• Finnish: väkipuukko (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: сакс (ru) m (saks), скрамасакс (ru) m (skramasaks)

Anagrams

• Saxe, axes, sexa-

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Middle English

Noun

seax

1. Alternative form of sax

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahsą, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sek-. Cognate with Old Frisian sax, Old High German sahs, Old Norse sax. Compare Old English sagu, secg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæɑ̯ks/

Noun

seax n

1. knife, dagger

Declension

Declension of seax (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	seax	seax
accusative	seax	seax
genitive	seaxes	seaxa
dative	seaxe	seaxum

Synonyms

• cnīf

Derived terms

• meteseax

Related terms

• Seaxa

Descendants

• English: seax (borrowing)
• Middle English: sax, sex
  • English: sax, zax