sægen

sægen

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of seien

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”); compare Old Norse sǫgn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.jen/

sæġen f

1. saying
2. statement, claim
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Fiaminius sē consul forsēah þā sæġene þe þā hlyttan him sædon...

     The consul Flaminius rejected the predictions that the diviners had told him...

3. tradition, something generally said
4. a narration

Strong ō-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sægen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.