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Definition of anglo-saxon
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Anglo-Saxon
(n.) A Saxon of
Britain,
that is, an
English
Saxon,
or one the
Saxons
who
settled
in
England,
as
distinguished
from a
continental
(or Old)
Saxon..
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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..
Saxon
::
Saxon (n.) Also used in the sense of
Anglo-Saxon.
Anglo-saxon
::
Anglo-Saxon
(n.) One of the race or
people
who claim
descent
from the
Saxons,
Angles,
or other
Teutonic
tribes
who
settled
in
England;
a
person
of
English
descent
in its
broadest
sense..
Ye
::
Ye () an old
method
of
printing
the
article
the (AS. /e), the y being used in place of the
Anglo-Saxon
thorn (/). It is
sometimes
incorrectly
pronounced
ye. See The, and
Thorn,
n., 4..
Stycerin
::
Styca (n.) An
anglo-Saxon
copper
coin of the
lowest
value,
being worth half a
farthing..
English
::
English
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to
England,
or to its
inhabitants,
or to the
present
so-called
Anglo-Saxon
race..
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superseded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..
Anglo-saxonism
::
Anglo-Saxonism
(n.) A
characteristic
of the
Anglo-Saxon
race;
especially,
a word or an idiom of the
Anglo-Saxon
tongue..
Saxonism
::
Saxonism
(n.) An idiom of the Saxon or
Anglo-Saxon
language.
Earthdrake
::
Earthdrake
(n.) A
mythical
monster
of the early
Anglo-Saxon
literature;
a
dragon.
Saxon
::
Saxon (n.) The
language
of the
Saxons;
Anglo-Saxon.
Moot
::
Moot (n.) A
meeting
for
discussion
and
deliberation;
esp., a
meeting
of the
people
of a
village
or
district,
in
Anglo-Saxon
times,
for the
discussion
and
settlement
of
matters
of
common
interest;
--
usually
in
composition;
as,
folk-moot..
Thane
::
Thane (n.) A
dignitary
under the
Anglo-Saxons
and Danes in
England.
Of these there were two
orders,
the
king's
thanes,
who
attended
the kings in their
courts
and held lands
immediately
of them, and the
ordinary
thanes,
who were lords of
manors
and who had
particular
jurisdiction
within
their
limits.
After the
Conquest,
this title was
disused,
and baron took its
place..
U
::
U () the
twenty-first
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
is a
cursive
form of the
letter
V, with which it was
formerly
used
interchangeably,
both
letters
being then used both as
vowels
and
consonants.
U and V are now,
however,
differentiated,
U being used only as a vowel or
semivowel,
and V only as a
consonant.
The true
primary
vowel sound of U, in
Anglo-Saxon,
was the sound which it still
retains
in most of the
languages
of
Europe,
that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood,
answering
t
Weak
::
Weak (v. i.)
Pertaining
to, or
designating,
a noun in
Anglo-Saxon,
etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See
Strong,
19 (b)..
Edh
::
Edh (n.) The name of the
Anglo-Saxon
letter
/,
capital
form /. It is
sounded
as
English
th in a
similar
word: //er,
other,
d//,
doth..
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
C
::
C () C is the third
letter
of the
English
alphabet.
It is from the Latin
letter
C, which in old Latin
represented
the
sounds
of k, and g (in go); its
original
value being the
latter.
In
Anglo-Saxon
words,
or Old
English
before
the
Norman
Conquest,
it
always
has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same
letter
as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek
alphabet.
The
Greeks
got it from the
Ph/nicians.
The
English
name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was
derived,
probably,
through
the
French.
Et
Ora
::
Ora (n.) A money of
account
among the
Anglo-Saxons,
valued,
in the
Domesday
Book, at
twenty
pence
sterling..
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..
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