Word Origin Summary

*sa is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• die

  Saterland Frisian · inherited from

• se

  German · inherited from

• dieser

  German · derived from

• the

  English · inherited from

• då

  Swedish · inherited from

• saavi

  Ingrian · derived from

• dae

  Limburgish · derived from

• dij

  Dutch Low Saxon · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root