saga
意味
- 北欧伝説
- 武勇伝
- 系図小説(一家や一族を伝説的または歴史的に扱った長編小説)
例文
Saga Prefecture's capital is Saga City.
佐賀県の県庁所在地は佐賀市です。
It was the third year of Meiji when their family name was changed to Saga.
家名を嵯峨と改姓したのは明治３年でした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”).