saga

Significat (Anglès)

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.

sagum

A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.

Llegeix-ne més

Conceptes

saga

epopeia

Sinònims

legend

myth

story

epic

fable

narrative

fairy tale

tale

Traduccions

saga

Saga

saga

Sage

saga

saga

destan

épopée

zaga

σάγκα

sage

epos

epopeia

efsane

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsɑːɡə/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb anglès antic: sagu

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: saga

Cognat amb islandès: saga

Cognat amb alemany: Sage

In summary

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.