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sayen

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishseien, equivalent tosay +‎-en.

Verb

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sayen

  1. (obsolete)plural simplepresent ofsay
    • 1606,N[athaniel] B[axter],Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […],→OCLC,signature [D4], verso:
      But diuine Shepheards ſoothlyſayen,
      In their high Layes with wordes plaine:[…]
    • 1647,Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, […].”, inAlexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor,The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press;Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published1878,→OCLC, stanza 78,page126, column 1:
      No more do souls of men. For storiessayen
      Well known 'mongst countrey folk, our spirits fly,[…]
    • 1747,William Mason,Musaeus: a Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope:
      That mensayen I make trewe melody,

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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FromOld Dutch*sāien, fromProto-West Germanic*sāan.

Verb

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sâyen

  1. tosow
  2. tospread, todisperse

Inflection

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Further reading

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Middle English

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Verb

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sayen

  1. Alternative form ofassayen
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