The story
- Old English · inherited from*wiþsagu“renunciation, contradiction”
- Middle English · inherited fromwithsawe
- English todaywithsaw
From Middle English withsawe, withsahe, withsau, from Old English *wiþsagu (“renunciation, contradiction”); equivalent to with- + saw (“saying”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.