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sagu

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
sagu, e;
Wright's OE grammar
§366;
and indecl.? f.
a saw, say (to say one's say),
saying, statement, story, tale
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  • Racu, sagu

    sermo.

      Hpt. Gl. 433, 12.
  • Nis ðis nán gedwimor ne nán dwollíc sagu. Jud. Thw. p. 159, 27.
  • Ic háte healdan hí óþ ðæt heora sagu áfandod sý. Homl. Th. ii. 484, 3.
  • Teónan ðú wyrcst ús mid ðisse sage

    haec dicens nobis contumeliam facis,

      Lk. Skt. II, 45.
  • Sagu dictu (cf. gesægene

    dictu,

      28, 47), Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 7.
  • Hí sǽdon ðam kinge ðæt hé hæfde swýðe ágylt wið Crist. . . . Ðá læg se king and ásweartode eall mid ðare sage. Chart. Th. 340, 1.
  • Gehýr ðú ðás race ná swilce leáse sagu ac geworden þing

    audi fabulam, non fabulam sed rem gestam,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 16, 12.
  • Geendebrednege ða sago þinga ordinary narrationem rerum, Mt. Kmbl. p. 7, 2, 9.

    Fabulae

    synd ða saga ðe menn secgaþ ongeán gecynde,
      Ælfc. Gr. 50, 29; Zup. 296, 5.
  • Spellenga, sagena

    sermonum,

      Hpt. Gl. 505, 77.
  • Ic ðínra bysna ne mæg, worda ne wísna wuht oncnáwan, síðes ne sagona,

      Cd. Th. 34, 9; Gen. 535.
  • Sagum

    fabulis, Lk. Skt. p.

      2, 10, 11.
saying, narration, telling, report
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  • Se hlísa ðe þurh yldra manna segene (sage, MS. B. ) tó ús becom

    opinio quae traditione majorum ad nos perlata est,

      Bd. 2, 1; S. 501, 2.
statement of a witness, testimony
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  • Tó hwí wilnige wé ǽnigre ððre sage

    quid adhuc egemus testibus,

      Mt. Kmbl. 26, 65.
  • Ne gehýrst ðú hú fela sagena

    (quanta testimonia)

    hig ongén ðé secgeaþ,
      27, 13.
  • Hí sóhton leáse saga

    (falsum testimonium)

    ongén ðone
      Hǽlend, 26, 59.
a saying beforehand, foretelling
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  • Of sage

    fatidicum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 22.
  • Saga

    presagia,

      67, 46.
  • Sagum

    praesagminibus, vaticinationibus, divina-tionibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 448, 64.
Etymology
[Ælc his saȝe sæide, Laym. 26345. Heo wenden þat his sawen (2nd MS. sawes) soðe weren, 749. A. R. saȝe, sawe, sahe: Chauc. Piers P. sawe: O. H. Ger. saga assertio, narratio, sermo, enuntiatio: Icel. saga story, tale.]
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v. on-, sóþ-sagu ; saga.
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