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saga
English
Etymology
From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“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. Doublet of saw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s????/
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
saga (plural sagas)
- An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
- Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
Translations
Anagrams
- AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag
Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *?aac-. Compare Somali sac.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s????/
Noun
sagá f (masculine sagáytu, plural láa m)
- cow
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Balinese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?sa.??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?sa.?a/
Etymology 1
Old Norse saga
Noun
saga f (plural sagues)
- saga
Etymology 2
Arabic ??????? (s?qa)
Noun
saga f (plural sagues)
- back, behind, rear
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga
- saga
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Faroese
Etymology
From sag (“saw”).
Pronunciation
- Homophone: sagað
Verb
saga (third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað)
- to saw
Conjugation
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *sa?a, variant of *ca?a, from Proto-Oceanic *sa?a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sa?a.
Noun
saga
- (anatomy) thigh
Finnish
Noun
saga
- Alternative spelling of saaga
Declension
French
Etymology
Old Norse segja (“to say”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.?a/
Noun
saga f (plural sagas)
- saga
Further reading
- “saga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- agas
Galician
Etymology
From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?
Noun
saga f (plural sagas)
- sorceress, witch
- An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
- Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa??a/
- Rhymes: -a??a
Etymology 1
From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. 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”).
Noun
saga f (genitive singular sögu, nominative plural sögur)
- a story
- a history
- a saga
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From sög (“saw”).
Verb
saga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sagaði, supine sagað)
- to saw
Conjugation
Etymology 3
Noun
saga
- indefinite genitive plural of sög
Anagrams
- gasa
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga (first-person possessive sagaku, second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa.?a/
- Hyphenation: sà?ga
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f (plural saghe)
- saga
Etymology 2
From Latin s?ga.
Noun
saga f (plural saghe)
- (obsolete, literary) witch
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
saga
- singular feminine of sago
Anagrams
- gasa
Japanese
Romanization
saga
- R?maji transcription of ??
Javanese
Etymology
From Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Latin
Etymology 1
Substantivisation of the female form of s?gus (“soothsaying”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sa?.?a/, [?s?ä??ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sa.?a/, [?s????]
Noun
s?ga f (genitive s?gae); first declension
- a female soothsayer, diviner, fortune-teller, prophetess, witch
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italian: saga
Etymology 2
Adjective
s?ga
- inflection of s?gus:
- singular feminine nominative/vocative
- plural neuter nominative/accusative/vocative
Adjective
s?g?
- singular feminine ablative of s?gus
Etymology 3
Noun
saga n
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sagum
Etymology 4
From Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f (genitive sagae); first declension
- (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:
- 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:
Declension
First-declension noun.
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- (sagà) IPA(key): [s?????]
- (sãga) IPA(key): [?s?ä????]
Etymology 1
Noun
sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 4
- button
- sagas ?si?ti - to sew buttons on
Declension
Derived terms
- (diminutive nouns) sagel?, sagut?
Related terms
- (verb) segti
Etymology 2
From Old Norse.
Noun
sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 2
- saga
- (in broader sense) story, legend
Declension
Synonyms
- (legend): sakm? f
Anagrams
- gasa
References
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /sa??/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /sa?a/
- Rhymes: -a??, -??, -?
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Etymology 2
From English saga, from Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”).
Noun
saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)
- saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
- saga (long epic story)
Further reading
- “saga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- (of sag) sagen
- (of sage) saget
- (of sage) sagde (simple past)
- (of sage) sagd (past participle)
Noun
saga m or f
- definite feminine singular of sag
Verb
saga
- inflection of sage:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Old Norse saga, whence also the modern doublet of soge. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sag?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
saga f or m (definite singular sagaen or sagaa, indefinite plural sagaar or sagaer, definite plural sagaane or sagaene)
- a saga
Etymology 2
From sag (“saw”) +? -a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)
Verb
saga (present tense sagar, past tense saga, past participle saga, passive infinitive sagast, present participle sagande, imperative sag)
- to saw
Alternative forms
- sage (e-infinitive)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
saga f
- definite singular of sag
References
- “saga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- gaas, gasa, saag
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?.??/, [?s?.??]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *sagô (“saw, scythe”), *sag?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *s?ik- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German [Term?] (“saga”) (German Säge), Old Norse s?g (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg).
Alternative forms
- sagu
Noun
saga m (nominative plural sagan)
- saw (tool)
Descendants
- Middle English: sawe
- Scots: seg
- English: saw
- Sranan Tongo: sa
Etymology 2
From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”). More at saw.
Noun
saga m (nominative plural sagan)
- saying; statement
- story, tale; narrative
Declension
Related terms
- sagu
Etymology 3
Verb
saga
- imperative of se??an
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f
- story
Descendants
- Middle High German: sage
- German: Sage
- Luxembourgish: So
Old Javanese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to say”)
Noun
saga f (genitive s?gu, plural s?gur)
- story, history, legend, saga
Declension
Descendants
References
- saga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f
- statement, discourse, report
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f (plural sagas)
- saga (Old Norse prose narrative)
- (by extension) saga (long, epic story)
Romanian
Etymology
From French saga.
Noun
saga f (uncountable)
- saga
Declension
Sasak
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Old Norse saga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sâ??a/
- Hyphenation: sa?ga
Noun
s?ga f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- saga
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Norse saga.
Noun
saga f (plural sagas)
- saga
Sundanese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.
Noun
saga
- jequirity (Abrus precatorius)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga, English saw, German Sage. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.
Pronunciation
Noun
saga c
- fairy tale
- epic, long story
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: saaga
Anagrams
- agas
Tagalog
Noun
sagà
- vine with small, red, and black seeds often used as beads
Turkish
Etymology
From Old Norse saga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?s???]
Noun
saga (definite accusative sagay?, plural sagalar)
- Old Norse (Icelandic) saga
Declension
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quest
English
Etymology
From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?st/, enPR: kw?st
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
quest (plural quests)
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
- Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
- (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
- (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 46"
- To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]
- To 'cide this title is impanneled
- 1609, William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 46"
Derived terms
- sidequest
Translations
Verb
quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)
- To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
- To search for; to examine.
- 1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk
- Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
- 1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk
- (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- queste, qwest, qwhest
Etymology
Partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste, and partly from their source, Latin quaesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kw?st(?)/
Noun
quest (plural questes)
- (Late Middle English) A legal inquest or investigation; a session of court.
- (Late Middle English) A group or body of jurors
- (rare) A body of judges or other individuals commissioned to make a decision or verdict
- (rare) The decision or verdict reached by such a body of judges.
- (rare) A quest, mission, or search.
- (rare) The finding of prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
- (rare, Late Middle English) The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
- (rare, Late Middle English) A petition or asking.
Related terms
- conquest
- enquest
- questen
- questioun
- questor
- request
Descendants
- English: quest
- Scots: quest
References
- “quest(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.
Romagnol
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.
Pronoun
quest (feminine singular questa)
- this one, this
- Quest l'è un mond zneno, e nost mond.
- This is a small world, our world.
- Questa l'è una cittadina bela.
- This is a beautiful city.
- Quest l'è un mond zneno, e nost mond.
Romansch
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.
Pronoun
quest
- this
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