The story
- Middle English · inherited fromsothesawe
- English todaysoothsaw
From Middle English sothesawe, sothsaȝe; equivalent to sooth + saw (“a saying”). Cognate with Icelandic sannsaga (“truth-telling, soothsaying”). Compare also Middle English sothsawel, sothsaȝel (“truth-telling”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.