secgan

== Middle English == === Verb === secgan (Early Middle English) alternative form of seien == Old English == === Alternative forms === seggan, sæċġan, secgean, secggan, secggean, sagian, secgian === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *saggjan. Cognate with Old Frisian sedza, Old Saxon seggian, Old Dutch seggen, Old High German sagēn, Old Norse segja. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsej.jɑn/, [ˈsed.d͡ʒɑn] Rhymes: -ej.jɑn === Verb === seċġan to say, tell late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter" c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost" to recite, pronounce to mention, talk about late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History ==== Usage notes ==== Unlike modern say, it is possible for seċġan to take an indirect object. The word referring to the person that something is said to is in the dative case. ==== Conjugation ==== The class III weak verbs were all subject to some degree of remodeling in Old English. In seċġan this can be seen in the sg. imp. saga, as well as the variant 2nd. & 3rd. sg. prs. ind., sagast & sagaþ, which resemble class II weak forms. However, unlike libban & hycgan, no other such forms occur, and so a full class II paradigm is unlikely. ==== Synonyms ==== cweþan cȳþan ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: seien, seyen, seggen English: say