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English
Pronunciation
- (archaic, dialectal) IPA(key): /seɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb
sayd
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of say
- 1499, :John Skelton — The Bowge of Corte
- Remembrest thou what thou sayd yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that
Adjective
sayd (not comparable)
- (obsolete) said, mentioned earlier
- A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)
- The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke, the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets...
Usage notes
In some dialects, said is pronounced sayd and is sometimes spelled that way in dialects, in addition to its use in archaic contexts.
Anagrams
Middle English
Verb
sayd
- alternative form of seide
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ij”, in , book II, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC, leaf 40, recto; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC,
page 79, lines
2–4:
Thenne the mooſt party of the knyghtes of the round table ſayd that Balen did not this auenture al only by myghte but by wytchecraft- (please add an English translation of this quotation)