saw

Meanings

Noun

• A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
• A musical saw.
• A sawtooth wave.
• Something spoken; speech, discourse.
• A saying or proverb.
• Opinion, idea, belief.
• Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
• Dictate; command; decree.

Verb

• To cut (something) with a saw.
• To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
• To be cut with a saw.
• To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
• Past of see
• Past participle of see

Interjection

• What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).

Origin

• Image:Crosscut saw.JPG|thumb|right|400 px|A saw—a tool
• The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-. Cognate with West Frisian seage, Dutch zaag, German Säge, Danish sav, Swedish såg, Icelandic sög, and through Indo-European, with Latin secō and Italian sega.
• The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
• From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga, from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ-. 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. saga.