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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *sagō</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_sagō</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_sago" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sagō">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>sagō</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsɑ.ɣɔː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᚨᚷᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ō-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>saw (tool)</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European *sok-éh₂, from *sek- (‘to cut’) + *-éh₂.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>sagō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>sagôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>sagǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>sagōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>sagōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>sagǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>sagōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>sagōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>sagō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>sagōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>sagō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>sagôz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*saga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>sāge</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>zaag</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>saag</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sagu</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>sawe</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>saw</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>zaawe</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>sage</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Soage</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>seage</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>saga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Serbo-Croatian</lang>
                      <orth>жага</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Slovene</lang>
                      <orth>žaga</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>saga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>sage</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Säge</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>See</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>זעג (zeg)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sagu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>saga</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>sage</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Saag</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Soag</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sǫg</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>sav</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>såg</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>sag</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>sag</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sög</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Jamtish</lang>
                    <orth>ság</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Kildin Sami</lang>
                    <orth>са̄гк (sāgk)</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                    <orth>sag</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>sag, sog, sau, sav, saj</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scanian</lang>
                    <orth>saw</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Smalandian</lang>
                    <orth>?</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sǫg</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>sagh, saagh</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Finnish</lang>
                      <orth>saha</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>såg</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*sākō</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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          </re>
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