Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo withdraw, retract (something said). · To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch ontzeggen (“to deny”), German entsagen (“to renounce, abjure”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionunseyenenm
- Inherited-form mentiononseċġanang · to deny, renounce
- Inherited-form mention*andasaggjangmw-pro · to unsay, renounce, deny
- Cognate mentionontzeggennl · to deny
- Cognate mentionentsagende · to renounce, abjure
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