sayst

«sayst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you say — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you say

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«sayst» means «you say», a form of «say»: To say is to speak words: «Say hello.» tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou sayst» = «you say».

examples

• And did it come true, sayst thou? (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

ending -st (stem «say», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sayst» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.