English Explanatory Dictionary

Saxon genitive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Saxon genitive Saxon genitives

Etymology

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

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