saw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
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.
Inflected forms:
form: saws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sawn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
gloss: A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
gloss: A musical saw.
pos: noun
gloss: A sawtooth wave.
pos: noun
gloss: The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut (something) with a saw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
gloss: To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
gloss: To be cut with a saw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The timber saws smoothly.
gloss: To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
to saw shingles
to saw out a panel
Derived words: saw-stool
saw-trestle
saw doctor
saw-edged
saw file
saw gin
saw palmetto
saw set
saw wrest
sawback
sawblade
sawbones
sawbuck
sawgrass
sawhorse
sawist
sawlog
sawman
sawmill
sawpit
saw-scaled viper
saw stroke
saw-whet owl
sawtooth
saw-tooth
saw-toothed
sawyer
saw gourds
saw logs
saw off
saw off the branch one is sitting on
saw the baby in half
saw wood
Translations:
lang: Aghwan
word: 𐕀𐔴𐕀𐔴𐕙
roman: xexer
lang: Albanian
word: sharrë
lang: Southern Altai
word: кирее
roman: kiree
lang: Southern Altai
word: бычак
roman: bïčak
lang: Arabic
word: مِنْشَار
roman: minšār
lang: Arabic
word: منشار
roman: minšār
lang: Aramaic
word: ܡܣܪܐ
roman: massārā
lang: Armenian
word: սղոց
roman: sġocʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: sharã
lang: Assamese
word: কৰত
roman: korot
lang: Asturian
word: sierra
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mişar
lang: Baluchi
word: ہرگ
roman: harrag
lang: Basque
word: zerra
lang: Belarusian
word: піла́
roman: pilá
lang: Bengali
word: করাত
roman: korat
lang: Bulgarian
word: трио́н
roman: trión
lang: Burmese
word: လွှ
roman: hlwa.
lang: Catalan
word: serra
lang: Chechen
word: херх
roman: xerx
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎦᏅᏙᎩ
roman: ganvdogi
lang: Cheyenne
word: é'ėxovahtȯtse
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鋸 /锯
roman: goe³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鋸子 /锯子
roman: jùzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鋸 /锯
roman: jù
lang: Chuvash
word: пӑчки
roman: păčki
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: msimanyo
lang: Coptic
word: ⲃⲁϣⲟⲩⲣ
roman: bašour
lang: Czech
word: pila
lang: Danish
word: sav
lang: Daur
word: kiree
lang: Dolgan
word: эрбии
roman: erbii
lang: Dongxiang
word: qirou
lang: Dutch
word: zaag
lang: East Yugur
word: küree
lang: Esperanto
word: segilo
lang: Estonian
word: saag
lang: Evenki
word: хувун
roman: huwun
lang: Faroese
word: sag
lang: Finnish
word: saha
lang: French
word: scie
lang: West-Frisian
word: seage
lang: Friulian
word: see
lang: Galician
word: serra
lang: Georgian
word: ხერხი
roman: xerxi
lang: German
word: Säge
lang: Greek
word: πριόνι
roman: prióni
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πρίων
roman: príōn
lang: Greenlandic
word: pilattuut
lang: Gujarati
word: કરવત
roman: karvat
lang: Hausa
word: zarto
lang: Hebrew
word: מַשׂוֹר
roman: masór
lang: Higaonon
word: gabas
lang: Hiligaynon
word: lagari
lang: Hindi
word: आरा
roman: ārā
lang: Hungarian
word: fűrész
lang: Hunsrik
word: Seh
lang: Icelandic
word: sög
lang: Ida'an
word: geragadi
lang: Indonesian
word: gergaji
lang: Ingrian
word: saha
lang: Ingush
word: херх
roman: xerx
lang: Irish
word: sábh
lang: Irish
word: toireasc
lang: Italian
word: sega
lang: Japanese
word: 鋸
roman: nokogiri
lang: Javanese
word: graji
lang: Kalmyk
word: көрә
roman: körä
lang: Kazakh
word: ара
roman: ara
lang: Khmer
word: រណារ
roman: rɔnaa
lang: Korean
word: 톱
roman: top
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ھەڕە
roman: herre
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئەڕە
roman: erre
lang: Central Kurdish
word: مِشار
roman: mişar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mişar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: birrek
lang: Southern Kurdish
word: مِشار
roman: mişar
lang: Southern Kurdish
word: ھەڕە
roman: herre
lang: Kyrgyz
word: араа
roman: araa
lang: Lao
word: ເລື່ອຍ
roman: lư̄ai
lang: Latin
word: serra
lang: Latvian
word: zāģis
lang: Ligurian
word: særa
lang: Lithuanian
word: pjūklas
lang: Lombard
word: résega
lang: Luxembourgish
word: See
lang: Macedonian
word: пи́ла
roman: píla
lang: Maguindanao
word: garugadi
lang: Malay
word: gergaji
lang: Maltese
word: serrieq
lang: Maltese
word: sega
lang: Maltese
word: munxar
lang: Manchu
word: ᡶᡠᡶᡠᠨ
roman: fufun
lang: Western Bukidnon Manobo
word: gavas
lang: Mansaka
word: lagari
lang: Māori
word: kani
lang: Maranao
word: gabas
lang: Minangkabau
word: garagaji
lang: Mingrelian
word: ხორხი
roman: xorxi
lang: Mongolian
word: хөрөө
roman: xöröö
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠬᠢᠷᠦᠭᠡ
roman: kirüge
lang: Nanai
word: попон
roman: popon
lang: Navajo
word: bee achʼiishí
lang: Navajo
word: tsin bee nehechʼiishí
lang: Nivkh
word: п’уф
roman: pʼuf
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sag
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sag
lang: Occitan
word: rèssa
lang: Occitan
word: ressèga
lang: Occitan
word: sèrra
lang: Ojibwe
word: giishkiboojigan
lang: Persian
word: اره
roman: arre
lang: Persian
word: منشار
roman: menšâr
lang: Piedmontese
word: ressia
lang: Polish
word: piła
lang: Polish
word: piłka
lang: Portuguese
word: serra
lang: Portuguese
word: serrote
lang: Rohingya
word: horot
lang: Romagnol
word: sega
lang: Romanian
word: ferăstrău
lang: Romansh
word: resgia
lang: Romansh
word: rezgia
lang: Russian
word: пила́
roman: pilá
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пила
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жага
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тестера
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pila
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žaga
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: testera
lang: Sicilian
word: serra
lang: Slovak
word: píla
lang: Slovene
word: žaga
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: piła
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: piła
lang: Spanish
word: sierra
lang: Swahili
word: msumeno
lang: Swedish
word: såg
lang: Tagalog
word: lagari
lang: Tajik
word: арра
roman: arra
lang: Tajik
word: миншор
roman: minšor
lang: Tamil
word: ரம்பம்
roman: rampam
lang: Tarantino
word: seghe
lang: Tatar
word: пычкы
roman: pıçqı
lang: Telugu
word: రంపము
roman: rampamu
lang: Thai
word: เลื่อย
roman: lʉ̂ai
lang: Tibetan
word: སོག་ལེ
roman: sog le
lang: Turkish
word: testere
lang: Turkish
word: bıçkı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بچقی
roman: bıçkı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اره
roman: erre
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: منشار
roman: minşar
lang: Turkmen
word: byçgy
lang: Ukrainian
word: пила́
roman: pylá
lang: Ukrainian
word: пи́лка
roman: pýlka
lang: Urdu
word: آرا
roman: ārā
lang: Uyghur
word: ھەرە
roman: here
lang: Uzbek
word: arra
lang: Venetan
word: siega
lang: Venetan
word: sega
lang: Vietnamese
word: cưa
lang: Vietnamese
word: cái cưa
lang: Walloon
word: soyete
lang: Walloon
word: soye
lang: Welsh
word: llif
lang: Woiwurrung
word: bindabalap
lang: Yakut
word: эрбии
roman: erbii
lang: Yiddish
word: זעג
roman: zeg