Name

Name SAW

Between 1880 and 2019 there were 15 births of Saw in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Saw per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 6 births.

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Prénom Saw
In Italiano

Nome Saw

Information about the first name Saw

The first name Saw has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Saw is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 3 letters including 1 vowel and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Saw

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Saw : Asw, Aws, Swa

Saw in Japanese ^*

Romaji	soo
Katakana	ソー
Hiragana	そー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Saw in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Saw

English

Etymology

The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.

Etymology

From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to follow”). 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. Doublet of saga.

Etymology (Interjection)

SAW
(Islam, proscribed) صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ‎ (ṣallā llāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)

Etymology (Noun)

saw (plural saws)
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
A musical saw.
A sawtooth wave.

Etymology (Interjection)

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

Etymology (Verb)

saw
simple past tense of see
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see

Anagrams

ASW, AWS, aws, was

Anagrams

ASW, AWS, aws, was

Noun

Saw (plural Saws)
(slang, African American Vernacular English) A Bahamian.
1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 154:
Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /sɔː/
Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore
Rhymes: -ɔː
(US) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /sɔ/
(cot–caught merger) enPR: sä, IPA(key): /sɑː/
(idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see') IPA(key): /sɑːl/

General

Etymology (Noun)

SAW (plural SAWs)
(military, US) A squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.
(physics) Initialism of surface acoustic wave.

Scots

Etymology (Verb)