Semi-Saxon
English
Alternative forms
- semi-Saxon
Etymology
semi- + Saxon
Proper noun
Semi-Saxon
- (obsolete) Late Old English and early Middle English, perceived as a language intermediate between Anglo-Saxon and English and belonging to the period from 1100 to 1200/1230/1250 (depending on author).
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Adjective
Semi-Saxon (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Relating to Late Old English and early Middle English, the form of the English language belonging to the period from 1100 to 1200/1230/1250 (depending on author).
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Semi-Saxon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- sexsomnia