Westseaxan

• Wesseaxe, Westseaxe, Westsexan, Weastseaxan

• IPA^(key): /ˈwestˌsæ͜ɑk.sɑn/

Westseaxan m pl

1. the West Saxons
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Of Seaxum, þæt is of þām lande þe mon hāteð Ealdseaxan, cōman Ēastseaxan ⁊ Sūðseaxan ⁊ Westseaxan.

     From the Saxons, that is, from the land known as Old Saxony, came the East-Saxons and South-Saxons and West-Saxons.

2. Wessex

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “WEST-SEAXE”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.