Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sagu

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sagō.

Noun

*sagu f[1]

saw (tool)

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sagu
Genitive	*sagā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sagu	*sagō
Accusative	*sagā	*sagā
Genitive	*sagā	*sagō
Dative	*sagē	sagōm, sagum
Instrumental	*sagu	sagōm, sagum

Descendants

Old English: sagu
- Middle English: sawe
  - English: saw
  - Yola: zaawe
Old Frisian: sage
- Saterland Frisian: Soage
- West Frisian: seage
Old Saxon: saga
- Middle Low German: sage
  - Low German: Saag
  - Plautdietsch: Soag
Old Dutch: *saga
- Middle Dutch: sāge
  - Dutch: zaag
    - Afrikaans: saag
Old High German: saga
- Middle High German: sage
  - German: Säge
  - Luxembourgish: See
  - Yiddish: זעג (zeg)
- → Serbo-Croatian: жага, žaga
- → Slovene: žaga

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *sagu”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *sagu”