Seyn

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An archaic form of the past participle of see, meaning perceived with the eyes or understood by the mind
2. Obsolete spelling of the past participle of the verb to see, used in older English to mean having been observed
3. Old past participle of the verb see, indicating that something has been viewed or recognized in earlier English

Etymology: In Middle English, "seyn" was a spelling of "seen," the past participle of "see," used with "have" or "be" as in "I have seyn it." Its ancestor was the Old English "gesewen," the past participle of "seon," the verb "to see." The "ey" spelling was one of several ways scribes wrote the long vowel of that form before spelling became standardised, and it survives mainly in older texts and editions.

Synonyms: say