saga

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- (“to tell, talk”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at saw, say.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːɡə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡə

saga (plural sagas)

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
   • 2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

     Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.

   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

• AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡa/

Old Norse saga

saga f (plural sagues)

1. saga

Arabic [Term?]

saga f (plural sagues)

1. back, behind, rear

From Old Norse saga.

saga

1. saga

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From sag (“saw”).

• Homophone: sagað

saga (third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað)

1. to saw

From Proto-Oceanic *sanga.

saga

1. (anatomy) thigh

saga

1. Alternative spelling of saaga

Old Norse segja (“to say”)

• IPA^(key): /sa.ɡa/

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

• “saga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• agas

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ

saga f (plural sagas)

1. sorceress, witch
2. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
3. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːɣa/
• Rhymes: -aːɣa

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”).

saga f (genitive singular sögu, nominative plural sögur)

1. a story

   Segðu mér sögu.

   Tell me a story.

2. a history

   Saga Japans er mjög áhugaverð.

   The history of Japan is very interesting.

3. a saga

From sög (“saw”).

saga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sagaði, supine sagað)

1. to saw

saga

1. indefinite genitive plural of sög

• gasa

From Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga (plural saga-saga, first-person possessive sagaku, second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡa/, [ˈs̪äːɡä]
• Stress: sàga
• Hyphenation: sa‧ga

From Old Norse saga.

saga f (plural saghe)

1. saga

From Latin sāga.

saga f (plural saghe)

1. (obsolete, literary) witch

See the etymology of the main entry.

saga

1. singular feminine of sago

• gasa

saga

1. Rōmaji transcription of さが

From Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Substantivisation of the female form of sāgus (“soothsaying”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.ɡa/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡa/, [ˈsaː.ɡa]

sāga f (genitive sāgae); first declension

1. a female sage, fortune-teller, witch

First declension.

• Italian: saga

sāga

1. singular feminine nominative of sāgus
2. singular feminine vocative of sāgus
3. plural neuter nominative of sāgus
4. plural neuter accusative of sāgus
5. plural neuter vocative of sāgus

sāgā

1. singular feminine ablative of sāgus

saga n

1. nominative plural of sagum
2. accusative plural of sagum
3. vocative plural of sagum

From Old Norse saga.

saga f (genitive sagae); first declension

1. (New Latin) saga
   • Saxonis Grammatici Historia danica. Recensuit et commentariis illustravit Dr. Petrus Erasmus Müller. Opus morte Mülleri interruptum absolvit Mag. Joannes Matthias Velschow, pars posterior, 1858, p. lxii:

     ... ratiocinari licet, Saxonem nullas scriptas sagas Islandicas ante oculos habuisse.

     ... it may be inferred that Saxo had not encountered any written Icelandic sagas.

• (sagà) IPA^(key): [s̪ɐˈɡɐ]
• (sãga) IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ä̌ːɡɐ]

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 4 [1]

1. button

   sagas įsiūti[1] - to sew buttons on

• (diminutive nouns) sagelė, sagutė

• (verb) segti

From Old Norse.

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 2 [1]

1. saga
2. (in broader sense) story, legend

• (legend): sakmė f

• gasa

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /saɡə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /saɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡə, -ɡə, -ə

From Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga (plural saga-saga, informal first-person possessive sagaku, informal second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

From English saga, from Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- (“to tell, talk”).

saga (plural saga-saga, informal first-person possessive sagaku, informal second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)

1. saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
2. saga (long epic story)

• (of sag) sagen
• (of sage) saget
• (of sage) sagde (simple past)
• (of sage) sagd (past participle)

saga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of sag

saga

1. simple past of sage
2. past participle of sage

saga f

1. definite singular of sag

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑɡɑ/, [ˈsɑɣɑ]

From Proto-Germanic *sagô (“saw, scythe”), *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *sēik- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German saga (German Säge), Old Norse sǫg (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg).

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saw (tool)

• sagu

• Middle English: sawe
  • Scots: seg
  • English: saw
    • Sranan Tongo: sa

From Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- (“to tell, talk”). More at saw.

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saying; statement
2. story, tale; narrative

• sagu

saga

1. imperative form of secgan

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse and Icelandic saga.

saga f

1. story

• German: Sage

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”)

saga f

1. story, history, legend, saga

• saga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga.

saga f

1. statement, discourse, report

From Old Norse saga.

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga (Old Norse prose narrative)
2. (by extension) saga (long, epic story)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

From Old Norse saga.

• IPA^(key): /sâːɡa/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ga

sȃga f (Cyrillic spelling са̑га)

1. saga

From Old Norse saga.

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

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saga c

1. fairy tale
2. epic, long story

sagà

1. vine with small, red, and black seeds often used as beads

From Old Norse saga.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɑɡɑ]

saga (definite accusative sagayı, plural sagalar)

1. Old Norse (Icelandic) saga