sá

• IPA^(key): /sɔɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɔɑː
• Homophone: sáð

From Old Norse séa, sjá, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

sá

1. first-person singular past of síggja

   eg kom, sá og sigraði

   vēnī, vīdī, vīcī (Julius Caesar)

2. third-person singular past of síggja

From Old Norse sá, a descendant from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só. Related to Old Norse sjá.

sá (feminine sú, neuter tað)

1. (obsolete, demonstrative) that, that one, he (referring to something or someone which is about to be specified further or has just been mentioned)

• ás

• IPA^(key): /sauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

From Old Norse sá (“to sow”), from Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-.

sá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sáði, supine sáð)

1. to sow

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Norse sá, a descendant from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só. Related to Old Norse sjá.

sá (feminine sú, neuter það)

1. (demonstrative) that, that one, he (referring to something or someone which is about to be specified further or has just been mentioned)

• sá sami

See sjá.

sá

1. [he/she/it] saw, first or third-person singular indicative past tense of sjá ‘to see’
2. [I] saw, first or third-person singular indicative past tense of sjá ‘to see’

• ás

• sáthadh (Ulster, obsolete)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaːhu/[1] (corresponding to the form sáthadh)

sá m (genitive singular as substantive sá, genitive as verbal noun sáite, nominative plural sáite)

1. verbal noun of sáigh

   Synonym: ropadh

2. a thrust, stab

   Synonym: rop

3. push, press
4. dart, lunge
5. stake

As substantive

As verbal noun

• sá-phlána m (“thrust-plane”)

sá

1. analytic present subjunctive of sáigh

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “sá” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “sá” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só. Related to Old Norse sjá.

sá (feminine sú, neuter þat)

1. this, that

• Icelandic: sá
• Faroese: sá
• Old Swedish: sa

From Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-. Compare Old English sāwan (English sow), Old Saxon sāian, Old High German sāen, sāwen (German säen), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 (saian).

sá

1. to sow

• Danish: så
• Faroese: sáa
• Icelandic: sá
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: så
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: så
• Swedish: så

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sá

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of sjá

sá

1. what

From Proto-Vietic *k-raːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kraʔ (“road, way”); cognate with Muong khá, Pacoh carna (through an infixed form), Chong kraː and Proto-Palaungic *kraːʔ.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂaː˨˩˦] ~ [saː˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂaː˦˥] ~ [saː˦˥]

sá • (詫, 垞)

1. (obsolete) road
   • 13th century, Trần Nhân Tông, Cư Trần lạc đạo phú 居塵樂道賦, Đệ thất hội 第七會:

     學(Học)隊(đòi)機(cơ)祖(tổ)詫(sá)禪(thiền)空(không)坤(khôn)卒(chút)別(biết)尼(nơi)

     By learning after the fore-elder's methods, on the path of Zen it shall not be any bit hard to know where.

   • 1941, Lưu Hữu Phước, Mai Văn Bộ, “Tiếng gọi công dân”:

     Đồng lòng cùng nhau ra đi sá gì thân sống

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Sá is the native Vietnamese word that has been replaced by the more common loanword đường, however remains fossilised in compounds such as đường sá (“roads”), sá cày (“furrow”), the latter of which is again contracted to sá in the idiom trâu quá sá (“buffalo beyond [the age to plough] the furrow (lit.); to be past one's prime (fig.)”).