saga
Meaning
- 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.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɑːɡə/
Etymology
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.
New
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.
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