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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

missay en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English misseien, misseyen, misseggen, equivalent to mis- + say. Cognate with Middle Dutch misseggen (“to missay”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To speak ill of (someone).
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
    • The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
missaying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
missaid Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
missaid Tense=Past lexicographic
missays Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

missayer

Translations (1)

mi nape (to say something wrongly)