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saga.

An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsɑːɡə/British, Received-Pronunciation, Southern, Standard/ˈsɑɡə/General-American/ˈsɐːɡə/Australia, New-Zealand/ˈsaɡə/Scotland
  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.

Where this word comes from

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). 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 say; Doublet of saw. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”).

noun
  1. plural of sagum

    form-of · plural
Where this word comes from

From Latin saga, plural of sagum.

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