saga
Galician
noun
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse saga (story, epic tale) derived from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (story, saying).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sagǭ
Gloss
story, saying
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- saga English
- saga Italian
- са́га Russian
- saga Spanish, Castilian
- *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *sekʷe- Proto-Indo-European
- saga Portuguese
- *sagōną Proto-Germanic
- *sagǭ Proto-Germanic
- saga Norwegian Nynorsk
- soge Norwegian Nynorsk
- sagu Old English
- saga Old Norse
- save Danish
- sága Czech
- saga Serbo-Croatian
- saga Catalan, Valencian
- saga Icelandic
- saga Old High German
- saga Turkish
- sàga Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- søga Faroese
- *sagā gmw-pro
- saga Old Saxon
- sága Slovak
- sagha Old Swedish
- sögu Westrobothnian
- saga Crimean Tatar