The Semispatha and the Saex

[Renatus]

From one of my previous posts: In the individual Germanic languages sax mainly means "knive" and "small sword" (cf. Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 26, 2004, p. 539).

Yes, but what about sahs? If semispathium, sax and sahs all mean 'small sword', I can see how the connection could be made but that does not mean that semispathium and saex are necessarily the same. Have we anything more positive?

This online dictionary is based on the 2002 edition of the Georges Latin dictionary: [hide]latin_german.deacademic.com/44693/semispathium[/hide] It states that semispathium means "a small spatha".

And it may be right but where is the authority for spathium and spatha being the same thing?

Another source: [hide]http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?spathium[/hide]

I cannot make a lot of sense of this.