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Thus, the Germans of the South, a small and compact body, coming mainly, as they do, from the centre and South, or less Saxonish and more Latinised sections of the Tuton country, are hardly to be classed with the intensely Saxonish hordes who pass in the North under the generic, odium-charged, name of Dutchmen, and who at home were, as those they have left behind them are—the Yankees of Europe.
Source: wiktionary
A decent fellow, although somewhat Saxonish, as the name indicates.
Source: wiktionary
Rhia looked at Granna, and Granna looked harder at Mam, squinting her eyes. “Well, what sort of a Saxonish half-brained warning is that to be giving, Aigneis?”
Source: wiktionary
For Caire in British & Cestre in Saxonish are one thing, & doo signifie in English a fort, towre, or castell.
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