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See also: SAW, Saw, sAw, s'aw, and šaw

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Sawi, from Savi ساوی (Savi).

Symbol

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saw

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sawi.

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English

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Etymology 1

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a saw (noun sense 1)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sok-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *sagō
Proto-West Germanic *sagu
Old English saga
Middle English sawe
English saw

    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”).

    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”).

    The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.

    Noun

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    saw (plural saws)

    2. A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
      1. (usually) Such a tool with a toothed blade.
        Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
      2. (sometimes) Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
    3. A musical saw.
    4. A sawtooth wave.
    5. (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
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    Terms derived from saw (noun)
    Descendants
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    • Sranan Tongo: sa
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    Verb

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    saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)

    1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
    2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
      • 1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit:
        He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
    3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
      The timber saws smoothly.
    4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
      to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
      to saw shingles
      to saw out a panel
      • 2026 August, Logan Wittmer, “Whiskey Cabinet”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 53:
        Locally sawn lumber—whether from small mills, local yards, or urban logs—often shows much more variation.
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    Etymology 2

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
    Proto-Germanic *sagǭ
    Proto-West Germanic *sagā
    Old English saga
    Middle English sawe
    English saw

      From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to say”).

      Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.

      Noun

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      saw (plural saws)

      1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
        • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
          And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
          And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded […].
          (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      3. (archaic) A saying or proverb.
        Synonyms: see Thesaurus:saying
        old saw
        • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], lines 152-5:
          And then the justice,
          In fair round belly with good capon lined,
          With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
          Full of wise saws and modern instances.
        • 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8:
          At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'
      4. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
        by thy saw ― in your opinion
        commune saw ― common opinion/knowledge
        on no saw ― by no means
      5. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
        • c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
          All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
      6. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
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      Verb

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      saw

      1. simple past of see
      2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
        • 1907, Report of the Special Committee of Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane‎[2], Government Printing Office, page 297:
          Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.
        • 2006, K.C. Carceral, Prison, Inc: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison‎[3], NYU Press, →ISBN, page 68:
          “I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”
        • 2014 October 7, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Anybody Shining‎[4], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:
          “I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”
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      Ashkun

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćā́kʰaH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱókh₂eh₂.[1]

      Noun

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      saw (Sanu)[2][3]

      1. branch

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      1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
      2. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “s′âu”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]
      3. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.

      Atong (India)

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      saw (Bengali script সাৱ)

      1. rotten

      Cornish

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from Middle English sauf, from Old French sauf, from Latin salvus, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós.

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      saw

      1. healthy, well
      2. safe, secure

      Conjunction

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      saw

      1. but, except

      Khasi

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      Khasi cardinal numbers
       <  3 4 5  > 
          Cardinal : saw

      Etymology

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      From Proto-Khasian *saːw, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Pnar soo.

      Numeral

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      saw

      1. four

      Middle English

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      Etymology 1

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      Noun

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      saw

      1. saw
        • 1387, Ranulf Higden, translated by John of Trevisa, Polychronicon:
          Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
          The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.

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      Verb

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      saw

      1. (Ireland) alternative form of saven

      Mizo

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      Determiner

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      saw (ergative and oblique sâwn)

      1. that over there

      Pronoun

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      saw (plural sâwng)

      1. that over there

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      Mizo demonstratives
      Pronoun Determiner
      Singular Plural Unmarked Oblique
      Near the speaker hei, he hêng hi hian
      Near the addressee kha khâng kha khân
      Up there khi khîng khi khian
      Down there khu khûng khu khuan
      Far away saw sâwng saw sâwn
      Unseen chu chûng chu chuan

      Note that all pronoun forms of the demonstratives are pronounced with different tones to their determiner counterparts. Oblique forms are pronounced with one tone when used in the ergative, and a different tone in other cases.

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      Etymology

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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      saw ?

      1. terror
      2. horror

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      saw (not comparable)

      1. (Western Kraków, Częstochowa Voivodeship, Kielce, Słupia) alternative form of haw

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      • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “saw”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 245

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      Pronunciation

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      • (Doric and most Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /sa/
      • (Central and some Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /sɔ/

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      saw

      1. (Southern Scots) simple past tense of sei
      2. (Northern Scots and Central Scots) simple past tense of see

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      Noun

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      saw (plural saws)

      1. A salve.

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      Verb

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      saw

      1. alternative form of sau

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      • Charles Vallancey (1788), “Memoir of the Language, Manners and Customs of an Anglo-Saxon Colony Settled in the Baronies of Forth and Bargie, in the County of Wexford, Ireland, in 1167, 1168 and 1169.”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy‎[5], volume 2, Royal Irish Academy, page 35

      Zhuang

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      Etymology 1

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      From Proto-Tai *sɯːᴬ (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese 書 (MC syo, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ສື (sư̄), Thai สือ (sʉ̌ʉ).

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      Noun

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      saw (Sawndip forms 𭨡 or 字 or 𰗂 or 𭓙 or 𰁈, 1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

      1. written language; writing; script
      2. (Chinese) character
      3. word
      4. book
      5. teaching material
      6. receipt; voucher
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      From Proto-Tai *saɰᴬ (“clear; clean”). Cognate with Thai ใส (sǎi), Northern Thai ᩈᩲ, Isan ใส, Lao ໃສ (sai), Lü ᦺᦉ (ṡay), Tai Dam ꪻꪎ, Shan သႂ် (sǎue), Tai Nüa ᥔᥬᥴ (sáue), Ahom 𑜏𑜧 (saw) or 𑜏𑜧𑜤 (sawu).

      Adjective

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      saw (Sawndip forms 𰝓 or ⿱西心 or 㳏, 1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

      1. clean
      2. (of transparent objects, water, etc.) clear
      3. (of liquids other than water) watery; thin

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 輸?”)

      Verb

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      saw (Sawndip forms 𰷙 or 賒 or 輸, 1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

      1. to lose
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