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Saxanach

Cite this: eDIL s.v. Saxanach or dil.ie/36241
Last Revised: 2019

 

Forms: Sagsanach, Saghsanach, Sagsnaigh, Sasanach

adj o, ā (Saxa, Saxain) Saxon; English: salann S.¤ , MacCongl. 61.29 . di shalonn Sacsanach, 123.20 . bogha dearg Sasgannach, SGS xviii 106.36 . comtrom tri punt no cart saxanach, Irish Texts v 82 § 7 (of a drink). As subst. Sagsanach, Saghsanach o, m. an Englishman, IGT Decl. § 17 . ā, f. an Englishwoman , § 18 . n p. Sagsnaigh, Breathnaigh, A. Ó Dálaigh liii 7 . ona Saxanachaib, RC xviii 294.1 . Niall mór mac na Sax[an]chi `son of the Saxon woman', RC xvii 32.19 . ré mnaoi shaxanuidh nó éirionnuidh, Mac Aingil 249.11 . Mod. Sasanach.

See Sagsach.