English
Sava
Sava comes from Serbo-Croatian Sava.
- Serbo-CroatianmodernSava
- Englishearliest quotation 1990same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Serbo-CroatianmodernSava
- Englishearliest quotation 1990same form
Earliest quotation: 1990, Kenneth C. Danforth, Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided: “To me a day in Belgrade is incomplete without…”
Every English word from Serbo-Croatian Sava
Another origin of Sava
- Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEסבא‘grandfather, old man’
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΣάββαςSábbas
- EnglishtodaySava
Today it means
name A river in southern Europe, a right side tributary of the Danube at Belgrade.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Serbo-Croatian Sava / Sava