saia

13th century, but well attested since the 10th century in local Medieval Latin documents as saia.[1] From Old Galician and Old Portuguese saya, from Vulgar Latin *săgĭa, from Latin sagum, cognate of Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos); probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (Apian wrote that the word was considered proper of the Celts of Iberia) and ultimately from Celtic.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaja̝/

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saia f (plural saias)

1. long skirt (women's clothing)

   Synonym: faldra

2. (dated) robe

• saio

saia

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of saír
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of saír

• “saya” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “saya” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “saia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “saia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “saia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Arabic سَاقِيَة‎ (sāqiya, “irrigation”) (from a dialect in which q is pronounced as a glottal stop), from سَقَى‎ (saqā, “to irrigate”). Compare Spanish acequia.

saia f (plural saie)

1. (regional) A ditch or trench, especially in Sicily

From Old Portuguese saya, from Vulgar Latin *săgĭa, from Latin sagum, from Gaulish *sagos or from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos) (cloak); cognate with Galician saia and archaic Spanish saya.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsajɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaja/
• Hyphenation: sai‧a
• Rhymes: -aja

saia f (plural saias)

1. a woman's skirt

• minissaia

• Kabuverdianu: saia
• Kadiwéu: jaye