unsay

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*andasaggjan“to unsay, renounce, deny”
2. Old English · inherited fromonseċġan“to deny, renounce”
3. Middle English · inherited fromunseyen
4. English todayunsay

From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch ontzeggen (“to deny”), German entsagen (“to renounce, abjure”).