saga
Meanings
Plural: sagas
Noun
- a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
- An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
- Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
- plural of sagum
Origin / Etymology
From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw.
Scrabble Score: 5
saga is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsaga is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
saga is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
saga is a valid Words With Friends word