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Witenagemote :: Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest..

Ae :: Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E..

Sassenach :: Sassenach (n.) A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..

Saxonism :: Saxonism (n.) An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

Magdeburg :: Magdeburg (n.) A city of Saxony.

Q :: Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th

Ge- :: Ge- () An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe..

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Anglo-Saxon.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest..

Kieserite :: Kieserite (n.) Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Stronghand :: Strong (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

Sparth :: Sparth (n.) An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd..

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