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n surname that has been adapted to its Slavic form from the original

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name '' Saks''. The

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Sachsen Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

'', which means 'one from

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', and among other variant forms it includes ''

Sachs Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant Zaks, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase ''Zera Kodesh Shemo'' (ZaKS), ...

'', '' Sacks'', and '' Saks''.

Name etymology

According to the Slovene

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there is a common group of

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es that are added to the end of

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s that create a Slovene

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; some examples are ''-ski'' (''Ledinski, Pisanski''); ''-nik'' (''Potočnik, Kotnik, Breznik, Blatnik''), ''-c'', ''-ec'', ''-ic'', ''-ac'' (''Konc, Samec, Sajovic, Komac''), ''-ica'' (''Jurca, Hvalica''), ''-da'' (''Kenda''), and ''-ida'' (''Saksida'').

People

* Alenka Saksida (born 1942), conductor and cultural activist * Igor Saksida (born 1965), literary historian * Iztok Saksida, sociologist * Kolja Saksida, actor * Lisa Saksida, Canadian neuroscientist * Pavle Saksida, mathematician * Rudolf Saksida (1913–1984), painter * Teja Saksida, singer * Sonja Saksida (born 1963), scientist, veterinarian * Žiga Saksida, musician

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List of Slovenian Musicians

Notes

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People

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