sauver

Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus.

In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.

• IPA^(key): /so.ve/

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sauver

1. to save, rescue; to protect
2. (computing) to save

   Synonym: sauvegarder

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to escape, run away
4. (North America) to save (conserve, prevent the wasting of)

   Synonyms: économiser, préserver

   Ça réduit le gaspillage et sauve de l’argent. ― It reduces waste and saves money.

• “sauver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• saveur

• sauwer

From Old High German sūbar, from Latin sobrius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ̯vɐ/

sauver (comparative sauvrer, superlative sauvrest)

1. clean

   Sin dein Henn sauver?

   Are your hands clean?

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

sauver

1. Alternative form of saveour

From Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvō, salvāre (“save”), from Latin salvus.

sauver

1. (Jersey) to save

• salvar (Oaths of Strasbourg)
• salver

From Late Latin salvāre, from Latin salvus.

• IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈveːɾ/

sauver

1. to save (remove from danger)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• salvaige
• sauvement

• Middle French: saulver
  • French: sauver
• Norman: sauver (Jersey)
• → Middle English: saven, saave, salve, save, savi, savun, savye, savyn; salvin, sauven, sauvin, sawvin; safe, saffe, sauve, sayve; sovy
  • English: save
  • Geordie English: syev
  • Scots: safe, sauf