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Saxe

Pronunciation: /sæks/

The English word “Saxe” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. Saxony: A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany

noun

  1. A German albumenized paper used in photography.

Etymology

Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources. The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of…

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