scyan

• scȳhan, scȳn, scȳhtan

Cognate with Old High German *scūhan attested in scūhenti. Possibly related to Old English sċyndan from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to shake, rattle”). It may be backformed in the present tense from the alternative form scȳhtan (scȳhte in the preterite), from Proto-Germanic *skūhtijaną, either Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to shake, rattle”), or from the from an unattested Proto-Germanic *skūhtiz (see tyht and tyhtan for a similar pattern).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskyː.ɑn/

scȳan

1. to prompt, urge

   Ða ǣrestan synne se weriga gāst scȳde

   The weary spirit urged the first sins

   Forðon mid ðȳ se weriga gāst ða synne scȳþ on mōde

   Because by this the weary spirit urges those sins

2. to persuade, to suggest

   Wē getǣceþ ł scȳaþ him

   We teach / suggest to him

   Ōðer him ðās eorþan ealle sægde lǣne... Ōðer hine scyhte ðæt hē sceaðena gemōt nihtes sōhte

   Some said to him the entire world to be transitory... others persuaded him that he sought a meeting of criminals at night

• scȳnnes (“suggestion, persuasion, incitement”)

• tyhtan

• (early) Middle English: shuhten