# sá
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɔɑː
* Homophone: sáð

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

sá
* first-person singular past of síggja
    eg kom, sá og sigraði
       vēnī, vīdī, vīcī (Julius Caesar)
* third-person singular past of síggja

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronoun

sá (feminine sú, neuter tað)
* (obsolete, demonstrative) that, that one, he (referring to something or someone which is about to be specified further or has just been mentioned)

##### Declension

† obsolete

### Anagrams

* ás

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sauː/
* Rhymes: -auː

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

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

##### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronoun

sá (feminine sú, neuter það)
* (demonstrative) that, that one, he (referring to something or someone which is about to be specified further or has just been mentioned)

##### Derived terms

* sá sami

### Etymology 3

See sjá.

#### Verb

sá
* [he/she/it] saw, first- or third-person singular indicative past tense of sjá (“to see”)
* [I] saw, first- or third-person singular indicative past tense of sjá (“to see”)

### Anagrams

* ás

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* sáthadh (Ulster, obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /sˠɑː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈsˠaːhu/ (corresponding to the form sáthadh)

### Noun

sá m (genitive singular as substantive sá, genitive as verbal noun sáite, nominative plural sáite)
* verbal noun of sáigh
    Synonym: ropadh
* a thrust, stab
    Synonym: rop
* push, press
* dart, lunge
* stake

#### Declension
##### As substantive

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
sá
sáite
vocative
a shá
a sháite
genitive
sá
sáite
dative
sá
sáite
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an sá
na sáite
genitive
an tsá
na sáite
dative
leis an sá don sá
leis na sáite :

##### As verbal noun

bare forms
singular
nominative
sá
vocative
a shá
genitive
sáite
dative
sá
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an sá
genitive
an tsáite
dative
leis an sá don sá :

#### Derived terms

* sá-phlána m (“thrust-plane”)

### Verb

sá
* analytic present subjunctive of sáigh

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 67

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “sá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65

## Khiamniungan Naga
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃa⁵⁵/

### Verb

sá
* (Patsho) to stick an elongated object into a hole or pit intentionally or unintentionally.
    khakik nüko jüho sa thiu va nyemy leg got sticked in a hole
    jujieliangko pai nü tsho nüleu apem lü sa thiu vaplease stick it in all the firewoods in the basket

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronoun

sá (feminine sú, neuter þat)
* this, that

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: sá
* Faroese: sá
* Old Swedish: sa

### Etymology 2

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).

#### Verb

sá
* to sow

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sá
* first/third-person singular past active indicative of sjá

## Tetum
### Pronoun

sá
* what

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [saː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʂaː˨˩˦] ~ [saː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʂaː˦˥] ~ [saː˦˥]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *k-raːʔ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *kraʔ (“path”). Cognate with Muong khá, Pacoh carna (through an infixed form), Chong kraː and Proto-Palaungic *kraːʔ.
Possibly cognate with Old Chinese 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ) (B-S) (SV: đạo), and less certainly, Old Chinese 路 (OC *Cə.rˤak-s) (B-S) (SV: lộ).

#### Alternative forms

* xá

#### Noun

sá • (詫, 垞)
* (obsolete) road
    Synonym: đường
** 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.

##### Usage notes

* sá is the native Vietnamese word that has been displaced by the more common loanword đường, but 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, mạ quá thì (“to be past one's prime”, literally “buffalo beyond [the age to plough] the furrow, rice seedlings beyond the time [to sow]”).

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

sá • (吒, 咤, 詫)
* (dated, chiefly in the negative or rhetorical) to mind, to care
    Synonyms: quản, màng, lo
** 13th century, Trần Nhân Tông, Cư Trần lạc đạo phú 居塵樂道賦, Đệ nhị hội 第二會:倿(Cầm)戒(giới)行(hạnh)敵(địch)無(vô)常(thường)儍(nào)固(có)詫(sá)求(cầu)名(danh)半(bán)角(chác)One keeps precepts and virtues, and defies impermanence, not at all caring to seek reputation in a venal manner (literally, “seek reputation to buy and sell”).
** 1941, “Tiếng gọi thanh niên”, Hoàng Mai Lưu (lyrics), Lưu Hữu Phước (music)‎performed by The Voice of Vietnam's Men's and Women's Choir:Này anh em ơi, tiến lên đến ngày giải phóng! Đồng lòng cùng đi, đi, đi! Sá gì thân sống?Brothers and sisters, march forth towards liberation's day! Let's go together! What do we care about our lives?