Sawing
/ˈsɔː.ɪŋ/noun
The act of cutting with a saw, or the present participle of saw.
Did you know?English saw traces back to a Proto-Germanic word for a cutting tool, and the same deep root appears in words for the saw itself across Germanic languages, showing how one of humanity’s oldest tools left a linguistic scar.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sek-
“to cut”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*sagō / *sagwō
“a saw, cutting tool”
Old English
OE
sagu
“a saw”
Middle English
ME
sawen
“to cut with a saw; to use a saw”
Modern English
English
sawing
“cutting with a saw”