West Saxon

the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.

any of the English of the period before the Norman Conquest who lived in the region south of the Thames and west of Surrey and Sussex.

a person whose native tongue was West Saxon.

of or relating to the West Saxons or their dialect.

Origin of West Saxon

1350–1400; Middle English, for Old English Westseaxan Wessex; see west, Saxon

The completion of the West-Saxon realm was in fact reserved for the hands, not of a king or warrior, but of a priest.

History of the English People, Volume I (of 8) |John Richard Green
Forms with the slenderer, or more vocalic sounds, replace forms which in the West-Saxon are broad or diphthongal.

The English Language |Robert Gordon Latham
The stages above Geat are found in the genealogy of the West-Saxon kings only.

Beowulf |R. W. Chambers
With the crown of the West-Saxon kings, he had taken up their claims to supremacy over the whole island, and probably beyond it.

William the Conqueror |Edward Augustus Freeman

The spelling has been made rigorously uniform throughout on an early West-Saxon basis.

Anglo-Saxon Primer |Henry Sweet

West Saxon

/ (in Anglo-Saxon England) /

of or relating to Wessex, its inhabitants, or their dialect

the dialect of Old English spoken in Wessex: the chief literary dialect of Old English See also Anglian, Kentish

an inhabitant of Wessex