said

said · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Past tense and past participle of *say*; expressed in words.

  2. 2.

    (adjective, formal/legal) Previously mentioned; aforementioned.

Related words

See also: say, saying, says
Synonyms: declared, expressed, stated, uttered

Etymology

From Old English sægde, past tense of secgan ("to say"), from Proto-Germanic sagjaną ("to say"). The irregular past tense form has been preserved from Old English, where weak verbs with a short stem vowel followed by a voiced consonant often underwent vowel changes.