See also: Sagu, sagú, sagù, sägu, and sągu

English edit

Noun edit

sagu (uncountable)

  1. Archaic form of sago.

Anagrams edit

Basque edit

Etymology edit

First attested in the 13th century, from Proto-Basque *sagu.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /s̺aɡu/, [s̺a.ɣ̞u]
  • (file)

Noun edit

sagu inan or anim

  1. (animate) mouse (small rodent)
  2. (inanimate, computing) mouse (input device)

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Binukid edit

Noun edit

sagu

  1. body fluid (of a corpse)

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay sagu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (processed sago; fluid oozing from a wound, infected sore, or corpse).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaɡo/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧go

Noun edit

sagu (first-person possessive saguku, second-person possessive sagumu, third-person possessive sagunya)

  1. sago:
    1. any of the palms from which sago is extracted.
    2. a powdered starch obtained from certain palms, specifically Metroxylon sagu, used as a food thickener.
    3. a powdered starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta.

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Malay edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm). Cognate with Javanese sagu and Tagalog sago.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sagu (Jawi spelling ساݢو, plural sagu-sagu, informal 1st possessive saguku, 2nd possessive sagumu, 3rd possessive sagunya)

  1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • sagu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010–), “*sagu₁”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Old English edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, whence also Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga, Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑ.ɡu/, [ˈsɑ.ɣu]

Noun edit

sagu f (nominative plural sage or saga)

  1. statement, discourse, report

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Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Malay sagu.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: sa‧gu
  • Rhymes: -u

Noun edit

sagu m (plural sagus)

  1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms)
  2. sago (any species of palm from which sago is extracted)
  3. sago pudding (a dessert made by boiling small grains of sago)

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French sagou.

Noun edit

sagu n (uncountable)

  1. sago

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Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

sagu

  1. (transitive) to stab, spear

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of sagu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tosagu fosagu misagu
2nd nosagu nisagu
3rd Masculine osagu isagu, yosagu
Feminine mosagu
Neuter isagu
- archaic

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh