Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saxon genitive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables: sax-on -gen-i-tive
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.

Example Sentences

"It is against euphony to make two genitives of the same form follow each other, particularly when they are Saxon genitives."
"First, not all Saxon genitives can be paraphrased with have: many subjective and objective nominalizations (the boy's escape, the boy's release), genitives of origin (the boy's letter), genitives of measure (ten days' absence), and many genitives with non-human reference points (today's paper, next year's profits, duty's call, the poll's results) do not have analogous uses with have (*The boy has an escape, *The boy has a release...)."

Etymology

So named because the possessive was one of the only productive relics of the Anglo-Saxon declensional system.

Inflected Forms

Saxon genitives (plural)

Questions

What does saxon genitive mean?: A genitive construction in English formed with the possessive clitic -'s.
Where does saxon genitive come from?: So named because the possessive was one of the only productive relics of the Anglo-Saxon declensional system.

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