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saga.

a story

4 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsaːɣa]
  1. a story

    feminine
    Segðu mér sögu.
  2. a history

    feminine
    Saga Japans er mjög áhugaverð.
  3. a saga

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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, 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”).

verb[ˈsaːɣa]
  1. to saw

    weak
Where this word comes from

From sög (“saw”).

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