name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
sasse
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/sæs/
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CMU ARPABET: S AE1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
Etymology
* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. * As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.
Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).