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

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

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

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent..

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 In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E..

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..

Anglo-saxon :: 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..

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..

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..

Derive :: Derive (v. t.) To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon..

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

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

English :: English (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race..

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

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..

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

Bretwalda :: Bretwalda (n.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes.

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

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.

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