Old Saxon
the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. Abbreviations: OS, O.S.
Origin of Old Saxon
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How to use Old Saxon in a sentence
Of its origin and early history we have no record except the bare statement of Bede that its settlers were of the Old Saxon race.
The Old-Saxon language, however, is extinct, and the blood considerably mixed.
The Ethnology of Europe | Robert Gordon LathamOf this the part corresponding to lines 790-820 exists also in the original Old Saxon.
The whole poem thrills with the Old Saxon love of the sea and of ships.
English Literature | William J. Long
British Dictionary definitions for Old Saxon
the Saxon dialect of Low German up to about 1200, from which modern Low German is derived: Abbreviation: OS
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