sayen

From Middle English seien, equivalent to say +‎ -en.

sayen

1. (obsolete) plural simple present form of say
   • 1606, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie

     But divine Shepheards soothly sayen,

     In their high Layes with wordes plaine:

   • 1647, Henry More, The Praeexistency of the Soul

     No more do souls of men. For stories sayen

     Well known 'mongst countrey folk, our spirits fly,

   • 1747, William Mason, Musaeus: a Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope

     That men sayen I make trewe melody,

• yeans

From Old Dutch *sāien, from Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-.

sâyen

1. to sow
2. to spread, to disperse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zaaien
• Limburgish: zèjje

• “sayen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “saeyen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

sayen

1. Alternative form of assayen