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Middle English
Verb
secgan
- Alternative form of seien
Old English
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Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sagjaną.
Cognate with Old Frisian sedza, Old Saxon seggian, Old Dutch seggen, Old High German sagēn, Old Norse segja. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
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Verb
seċġan
- to say, tell
Hwȳ ne sæġdest þū þæt ǣr?- Why didn't you say that before?
Iċ seċġe simle sōþ.- I always tell the truth.
Ġesiehst þū! Iċ þē sæġde þæt hit riġnan wolde.- You see! I told you it was gonna rain.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
Nū wylle wē ēac ēow secgan hū hē sume dæġ ēode tō þām godes temple mid þām godspellere Iohanne...- Now will we also tell you how on a certain day he went to God's temple with the evangelist John.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
Þāðā hí noldon cuman to ðam giftum, ða sende hé eft, þus cweðende, "Secgað ðam gelaðodum, Efne, ic ġeġearcode mīne gōd, ic ofslóh mine fearras, and mine gemæstan fugelas, and ealle mine ðing ic ġearcode: cumað to þam giftum."- When they would not come to the marriage, he sent again, thus saying, "Say to those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my meats, I have slain my oxen and my fatted fowls, and have prepared all my things: come to the marriage."
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