Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sagǭ

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sagō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

A nominal formation from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.ɣɔ̃ː/

Noun

*sagǭ f^[1]

story

Inflection

Declension of *sagǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*sagǭ	*sagōniz
vocative	*sagǭ	*sagōniz
accusative	*sagōnų	*sagōnunz
genitive	*sagōniz	*sagōnǫ̂
dative	*sagōni	*sagōmaz
instrumental	*sagōnē	*sagōmiz

Derived terms

*sagōn

Related terms

*sagjaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *sagā
- Old English: saga, sagu
  - Middle English: sawe
    - English: saw
- Old Frisian: sege
- Old Dutch: *saga
  - Middle Dutch: sāge
    - Dutch: sage (influenced by German)
      - Afrikaans: sage
    - Limburgish: zaag
- Old High German: saga
  - Middle High German: sage
    - German: Sage
    - Luxembourgish: So
Old Norse: saga
- Icelandic: saga f
- Faroese: søga f
- Norn: saga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: soge, soga, sogu; (dialectal) søgu, søge, sugu, soggo, soka
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: soge m or f
- Jamtish: sugu
- Old Swedish: sagha
  - Swedish: saga
    - → Finnish: saaga
- Old Danish: saghæ
  - Danish: sage c (archaic)
    - Norwegian Bokmål: sage m
  - Jutish: save c
- Gutnish: sage, sagå
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: saga f
- → Norwegian Bokmål: saga m
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: saga m or f
- → English: saga
  - → Afrikaans: saga
- → German: Saga
- → Kildin Sami: соа̄гк (såågk)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sagō(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 421

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sagō(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 421

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