Semi-Saxon

English

Alternative forms
  • semi-Saxon

Etymology

semi- +‎ Saxon

Proper noun

Semi-Saxon

  1. The language intermediate between Anglo-Saxon and English, belonging to the period from 1100 to 1200/1230/1250 (depending on author).

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Adjective

Semi-Saxon (not comparable)

  1. half Saxon; applied to the language intermediate between Anglo-Saxon and English, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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