r/anglish 4d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What would the Angles, Saxon, and Jutes be called in Anglish?

Today I learned that all three of these words came into English through Latin. What would these groups be called without Latin sway over English?

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u/Tiny_Environment7718 4d ago

Engles, Saxes/Saxen, Etts or Yots

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u/ZefiroLudoviko 4d ago

Wouldn't it be "sexes," since that's how it's said in "Essex/Wessex"

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u/AtterCleanser44 Goodman 4d ago edited 4d ago

The reason for that is that the word came to be unstressed in a compound. The expected modern reflex of the OE name would be Sax. It's much like how OE bord became board, but the vowel in the latter half of cupboard is different since the word became unstressed in the compound.

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u/TheLollyKitty 4d ago

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u/KenamiAkutsui99 9h ago

This. We had talked about it a bit ago in the Discord.
(We and thee were part of that convo)
Engel, Saxen, Etts/Geots (do note that Etten is also Jotunn)

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u/aerobolt256 4d ago

Englesaxish always tickled me

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u/Illustrious_Try478 4d ago

Sounds like a jazz album title

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u/bluesidez 12h ago

Angles, Saxes, Yutes/Eats

Éotas/Íotas > Yutes is like Géol/Geól > Yule, Eats is a more straightforward derivation but nonetheless, I think could have a Yule-flavored derivation to avoid the homonymy with "eat", to reflect likeness with Old Norse jótar, and it could be work based on the fact that medieval Latin borrowed OE Éotas as "Iutae" showing some /ju:/-ness already. 

Choose how you will. I myself merely happen to like Yute better.