different between said vs sayd

English

Alternative forms

• saide, sayde, seyde (obsolete)
• sayed (nonstandard)
• sed (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English s?de, sæ?de (preterite) and ?esæ?d (past participle), equivalent to say +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?d, IPA^(key): /s?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

said

1. simple past tense and past participle of say

Adjective

said (not comparable)

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

Determiner

said

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

See also

• Said for proper noun sense

Anagrams

• AIDS, Aids, Dais, IADS, IADs, aids, dais, daïs, sadi, sida

Estonian

Verb

said

1. Second-person singular past form of saama.
2. Third-person plural past form of saama.

Middle English

Verb

said

1. Alternative form of seide

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) seit
• (Sutsilvan) set
• (Surmiran) seid

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

said f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) thirst

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