different between hamlet vs sayd

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm.l?t/
• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlett

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• say'd

Pronunciation

• (archaic, dialectal) IPA^(key): /se?d/

Verb

sayd

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of say
   • 1499, :John Skelton — The Bowge of Corte [1]

     Remembrest thou what thou sayd yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?

Adjective

sayd (not comparable)

1. (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

• YASD, dasy-, days, yads

Middle English

Verb

sayd

1. Alternative form of seide