forsay

Verb

(third-person singular simple present forsays, present participle forsaying, simple past and past participle forsaid)

to forbid
to renounce
to deny, gainsay
to forsake

Origin

From Middle English forsayen (“to renounce”), from Old English forsecgan (“to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on”), equivalent to for- +‎ say. Cognate with German versagen (“to refuse, deny”), Swedish försäga (“to misspeak, say too much”). More at for-, say.