saga en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsɐːɡə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈsɑːɡə/ (British, Received-Pronunciation, Southern, Standard)
- /ˈsaɡə/ (Scotland)
- /ˈsɑɡə/ (General-American)
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. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”).
Meanings
- An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
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Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.
2003 December 14, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, A Long and Fiery Tradition, page 32:Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2012:According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sagas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Nart saga · sagalike · Aga saga · sagaman · saga boy · supersaga · minisaga
Translations (53)
ms saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · ca saga (long epic story) · uz doston (long epic story) · hu rege (long epic story) · ru эпопея (long epic story) · is saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · de Saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · pl saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · sl saga (long epic story) · ms saga (long epic story) · ro legendă nordică (long epic story) · fi saaga (long epic story) · sl saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · es saga (long epic story) · cmn 薩迦 /萨迦 (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · la saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · ru са́га (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · tr saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · zza saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · fi tarina (long epic story) · ca saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · gd sàga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · id saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · it saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · ru са́га (long epic story) · vro saaga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · zza destan (long epic story) · is saga (long epic story) · de Sage (long epic story) · bg са́га (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · sv saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · da saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · ms hikayat (long epic story) · gd sàga (long epic story) · ar مَلحَمَة (long epic story) · gl saga (long epic story) · tr destan (long epic story) · gl saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · bg сказа́ние (long epic story) · crh saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · sk sága (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · hu monda (long epic story) · fi taru (long epic story) · fo søga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · fi saaga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · fr saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · hu saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · pl saga (long epic story) · cs sága (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · pt saga (long epic story) · eo sagao (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · es saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose) · pt saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)