saga
/ˈsɑɡə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
noun
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
name
Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
name
The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
name
A unisex given name.
name
A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Saga Becker"
- "2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker"
- "[…] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners[…]"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *sekʷ-, saga, *sagǭ, ས་དགའ
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɑɡə/
- British English: /ˈsɑːɡə/