Noun: saw
Sample Sentences
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Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
Nouns inflected like saw
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sek-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *sok-éh₂
6. Proto-Germanic *sagō
7. Proto-West Germanic *sagu
8. Old English saga
9. Middle English sawe
10. English saw
11. The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
12. Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sag (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
13. The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above. See: Middle English Nouns '
sawe', Old English Nouns '
saga', Dutch Nouns '
zaag', German Nouns '
Säge', Danish Nouns '
sav', Swedish Nouns '
såg', Icelandic Nouns '
sög', Latin Nouns '
secō', Italian Nouns '
sega'.
Verbs referencing "saw"
Swedish Nouns
saga, German Nouns
Säge, Italian Nouns
sega, Danish Nouns
sav, Russian Nouns
сектор, Old Norse Nouns
sǫg, Russian Nouns
лобзик, Irish Nouns
sábh.